This was a quick turnaround during the midterm elections. The assignment here was to rethink the exit poll page in a way that drew readers to the page. Regardless of what I am making, I am always reaching to find a way to present the data in a way that adds visual interest. I never want to simply repeat myself, so experimenting with presentation is my attempt to create new form and add some energy to the page.

This collaboration: reporters had narratives, they had data, they had evidence. The challenge here was to find a visual approach to explain the concept of qualified immunity, a legal process by which police are able to avoid being held accountable in cases of excessive force. I was lucky to partner here with Feilding Cage, who always elevates my work. Our task was to make the complex accessible and bring the emotion of the topic in front of readers. The series won the Pulitzer in the explanatory category.

This was a project with the uber-talented Feilding Cage, who I have been fortunate to partner with. We wanted to gamify the idea of returning to the office so we spoke to architects and office experts to figure out what the challenges may be. Feilding built the game and I made the blob universe, which was an entirely enjoyable departure.

This 5-part 10 story series on climate change looks at how warming seas have forced fish to migrate to cooler waters, and what that means for people on land. This was the first time I worked with Reuter’s photographers and reporters around the world. My goal with the structure of this series was for each piece to have it’s own unique feel. We shot 360s in Borneo, sent drones into the air in Africa and put GoPros underwater in Norway. A ton of terrific talent contributed.

I was honored to be part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for this project, continuing the work of two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were detained in Myanmar on Dec. 12, 2017. At the time of their arrests, they had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. ‘The Day They Took Our Men’ is an interactive I was the visual editor for, Reuter’s reporters went back to the families of those boys.

This is a project I did at The Wall Street Journal with Scott Austin and Chris Canipe. Our challenge with this interactive database was to make a visualization that told the story quickly and packed a punch, and at the same time provide readers with information about the companies so they would return again and again. The editors wanted 'something that will draw people in' so the visualization you see at the top (or here below if you are on mobile) arose from the tremendous pressure I felt to deliver develop something unique. The project has proven wildly successful.  The Billion Dollar Startup Club

In 2013 I was West Virginia University's P.I. Reed School of Journalism's first Ogden Newspapers Innovator-in-Residence...Which means I got to teach an experimental journalism class! We made a data-driven mobile-first multimedia story about the use of ADHD medications as study aids on campus. Each class had a guest journalism lecturer, so I got to invite lots of people I admire in the industry to speak. The students used poll data to drive the reporting, and video and audio and illustration to create the narrative we called 'The Drug Next Door.'  Since we were trying to capture the culture around the drug use of one our solutions for visuals was to use memes. And, we pulled in Twitter #Adderallhadme and #Adderall on Instagram so the project is always live.

Trials is a ten-chapter 18,000 word immersive multimedia piece, reported and written by Amy Dockser-Marcus about families fighting for treatment for their children stricken with a rare disease. As the visual editor I spent months partnering with Amy and the subjects, gathering material, working through the narrative and ultimately building the interactive. We wanted a quiet treatment for the story. The images were meant to instill a sense of intimacy and stay out of the way of the subject matter. Working on this piece changed how I think about a data. I wrote a little about that here. Trials is a great read and a compelling story. I hope you'll spend some time with it.

I was fortunate enough to be part of a WSJ series lead by the unstoppable reporter Julia Angwin called 'What They Know' on internet privacy and how trackers, cookies and our datastream are being intercepted along with our browsing habits. The stories were ahead of their time, before Wikileaks, before the rise of Anonymous and before some of the major hacks of this decade. Andrew Garcia Phillips and I made several visualization online -- that I can now only share as static images since we were working in flash!  We won a Loeb Award, but more importantly, we exposed the how companies were scooping up the trail left by our browsing habits.

In addition to some of my digital project which are on this site, here are some examples of print work I've done at the Journal. One of my favorite gigs was working on a weekly feature off the news called, you guessed it, 'This Week.' It was a chance to find a different angle on stories that readers were buzzing about, do a little data reporting, a little writing and some visual storytelling. Also included here are some breaking news graphics. It's always amazing to me when I look back on it, what one can accomplish in a day under deadline pressure.

My first year at Fortune I spent repeating everything I learned at the Times. By my second year, I realized the rules were mine to make and bend and break, so I started experimenting and finding my own voice. It was a deeply creative time for me, it opened new pathways in my brain. Besides learning to make magazines, I got to collaborate with the smart folks at CNNMoney and work on the redesign of Fortune.com.

It's hard to explain the place The New York Times has in my heart. It's a news organization that has a culture of mentoring and I was blessed to learn from some of the best journalists in the world. There's no way I can sum up 15 years of work on one web page, so I've included some samples of some of my more ambitious print graphics. At the Times graphics editors do their own reporting, so these are pieces I pitched and produced.