Audio. Video. Graphics. Maps. DATA.

Alex Newman is an interactive journalist specializing in data visualization, multimedia and user experience. 

She is currently the senior editor for interactives at FiveThirtyEight, based in New York City. (Update: On April 25, during ABC-Disney layoffs, Alex and 20 others at FiveThirtyEight were let go. She’s currently seeking a new opportunity for herself AND also happy to help connect anyone looking for writers, copy editors and other visual journalists affected by the layoffs.)

She most recently worked as a visual editor at the Wall Street Journal. Other former jobs include: PRI’s The World, Al Jazeera America, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Home Front Communications, USA TODAY and the Reno-Gazette Journal. She has also taught journalism whenever time permits. 

She’s terrible at using professional headshots, as you can see here.

She grew up in Reno, Nevada (Ne-VAH-DUH, not Nuh-VA-DAH) and shares her apartment with a pet tortoise, Capt. Ahab, and a pandemic rescue cat, (the Earl of) Ham Sandwich.

Email her at alex [dot] j [dot] newman [at] gmail.com.