NBC News Specials

From 2016 to 2019 I was a senior interactive graphics specialist at NBC News, on the Foundry team. We built bespoke longform features, the specials, in collaboration with reporters across the newsroom. Every one was designed from scratch around its story, mixing video, data visualization and scrolling narrative.

Scrolling Journey of a Bullet — the bullet-path diagram, documentary stills, and longform text as readers met it

Journey of a Bullet (2017)

The overlapping stories of six gunshot survivors, from Iraq to the streets of Chicago, coping after their injuries. Read it →

The introduction to the Journey of a Bullet story

Post Bail (2017)

America's justice system runs on exchanging money for freedom, so can data fix it? Jon Schuppe's investigation includes an interactive version of a risk-assessment algorithm, so readers can see how a score gets made. Read it →

Does America Need Another Prison? (2018)

Letcher County, Kentucky, was sustained by a coal industry that now hardly exists, and a federal prison might replace it. Read it →

A map comparing the location of prisons and coal mines in the southeastern United States

How Trump Won (2016)

How a populist message proved everyone wrong, county by county. Read it →

A table and map showing the counties that swung hardest toward Donald Trump

And more

The Making of an Astronaut (2017): a rare look inside astronaut training and spaceflight
Donald Trump's First 100 Days (2017): historians, activists and White House veterans grade the first major benchmark