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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

- Write and contribute to reports for a national audience exploring trends and emerging issues for state governments. Frequent topics include the economy, budgets, demographics and public workforce.- Analyze economic, demographic, and other data to identify trends and potential implications for state budgets. Support other teams with data compilation and analysis.- Play lead role in developing methodologies for projects, conceptualizing graphics and data visualizations.- Conceive… Show more - Write and contribute to reports for a national audience exploring trends and emerging issues for state governments. Frequent topics include the economy, budgets, demographics and public workforce.- Analyze economic, demographic, and other data to identify trends and potential implications for state budgets. Support other teams with data compilation and analysis.- Play lead role in developing methodologies for projects, conceptualizing graphics and data visualizations.- Conceive and develop ideas for web content examining challenges for states. - Conduct interviews with government officials, policy researchers, and others. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Conceived and carried out data journalism projects on policy issues cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, many other major media outlets and academic journals. - Led effort to launch Governing Data website presenting data visualizations and analysis. Oversaw and managed all editorial aspects of website, expanding it to encompass more than 150 datasets and interactive graphics that accounted for more than a third of publication's overall traffic.- Wrote data-driven news… Show more - Conceived and carried out data journalism projects on policy issues cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, many other major media outlets and academic journals. - Led effort to launch Governing Data website presenting data visualizations and analysis. Oversaw and managed all editorial aspects of website, expanding it to encompass more than 150 datasets and interactive graphics that accounted for more than a third of publication's overall traffic.- Wrote data-driven news articles covering a range of state and local government policy issues. - Conducted research on different areas of public policy. Frequent topics included economic issues, demographics, public finance, infrastructure, public workforce, decennial Census, and public safety.- Served as the in-house data analyst for all editorial staff. Assisted with compiling, analyzing, and interpreting data or statistics.- Led magazine's data visualization efforts, regularly working with colleagues to conceive and produce graphics for their stories.- Generated project ideas from scrutinizing state and federal government data and filing public records requests.- Wrote monthly “Behind the Numbers” print magazine column and email newsletter.- Developed methodologies or techniques to analyze data for reports. Several of my methodologies, such as one examining crime and populations of unauthorized immigrants, were later cited in academic journals.- Gained knowledge of a wide range of policy issues from interviewing public officials and leading experts.Note: The company ceased publication of the magazine and later relaunched the website with a different editorial focus. Show less

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

- Conducted data analysis for long-term reporting projects and daily stories.- Introduced data journalism to the newsroom; served as in-house data analyst. - Built interactive databases, maps and other data visualizations to accompany stories.- Wrote frequent breaking news updates on deadline for website.- Wrote scripts to retrieve and process data from websites, PDF documents.- Assisted in managing and updating website.

- Worked with the South Florida Sen Sentinel’s highly regarded investigations team on multiple projects.- Scrutinized government data and public records. - Collaborated with colleagues by collecting and analyzing data. Assisted reporters in interpreting data and findings.- Worked with design team to produce graphics to accompany articles.- Recorded and summarized information gathered from LexisNexis, legislative documents, court records, audits and other public documents.

Master'S Degree, Public Administration

Computer Science, Communication: Journalism (Double Major)

Activities and Societies: Flyer News

Communication: Journalism, Computer Science