![]() She’ll serve as the top adviser to the executive editor and managing editor on statistical questions like polling methodologies and election forecasting, and she’ll participate in conversations with desks as they discuss data-oriented reporting that may aid our economics, technology and investigative coverage. The Upshot has analyzed troves of statistics, and delivered visual evidence showing important economic and societal realities like the persistence of racism and gender inequality or the pace of the opioid crisis.Īs data editor, Amanda will continue to provide direction for The Upshot, and she’ll add the expertise from Computer-Assisted Reporting journalists in New York and software developers here and in the Washington bureau. Her department has created some of our most memorable digital projects, from the dialect quiz, to charts that readers draw, to the election “needle,” and it’s all deeply rooted in data. ![]() She helped David Leonhardt launch The Upshot in 2014, and she took the reins of that desk at the beginning of 2016. The role is designed to deepen the connections between Computer-Assisted Reporting, The Upshot, INT and our Graphics department, as well as desks throughout the newsroom.Īmanda started her career here as an intern on the Graphics desk in 2004. So we’re promoting Amanda Cox into a new role in the newsroom - data editor. The Times has a history of success with data journalism, and now we want to create more ways for reporters and editors to make smart use of data, while continuing to pursue innovative data-driven efforts, from visualization to modeling and machine learning. ![]()
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