![]() ![]() There is certainly more than one way to enter this field! Here’s the short version of each of our stories: Our team’s backgrounds are pretty varied. Rarely do organizations have the liberty to take such risks, yet we're small enough to experiment in the pursuit of quality. ![]() Sometimes we'll attempt an unfamiliar visual approach-not because it's guaranteed to work, but because we won’t know until we try. We don't have an established pattern language found in traditional reporting. Visual journalism is still in its infancy. Consequently, many of our ideas are killed during production, but we wouldn’t have it any other way! It means we’re trying unproven, never-done-before things. The creative process feels more like workshopping a movie script than critiquing a bar chart. No one will take on risky, creative projects when they're staring at a deadline. With breaking news, it's difficult to gamble on weird, ambitious ideas if they must be published. There are no deadlines because we are not tied to news events. One luxury that separates us from traditional newsrooms is our approach to publishing urgency. Each team member can do every step: research and reporting, data analysis, design, writing, and code. Much of our work is done autonomously, with individuals choosing their essays and owning the whole story, from research to code. We're a small group that operates as a collective rather than hierarchical team. We are committed to listening, learning, making changes, and being proactive in the fight for equity, inclusion, and racial and social justice. We strive for our journalism to be one of key making, not gate keeping, and we won't shy away from stories that tackle racism, sexism, and classism head on. We hope to be a place that centers and amplifies voices that have long been ignored. We believe in journalism that denounces false equivalence, one that can explicitly say Black Lives Matter, one that never views human rights as partisan issues, and one that believes a person's own experiences are central to strong storytelling. Visual storytelling makes ideas more accessible-or so goes the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words.” ![]() Some of the most complex, debated topics get lost in “too long didn’t read” 10,000-word articles. Visual essays are an emerging form of journalism. ![]()
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