With the annual ONA conference going virtual, it was an additional heartbreak that the annual Online Journalism Awards would be virtual as well. A three-hour participatory program doesn’t necessary translate well online, so our program… Read More »Transitioning annual awards announcement to virtual
For the 2020 Online News Association Conference, we look to celebrate what Atlanta is today: a city that has re-emerged as the “new cultural capital of America,” according to The Daily Beast. For the third consecutive year,… Read More »Embracing Atlanta’s unique character for the ONA20 branding
The ONA team is incredibly excited to bring our annual conference to New Orleans for the first time. It’ll be a fitting location to celebrate our 20th anniversary with some fanfare. Yet, despite the city… Read More »Welcoming the ONA conference to the French Quarter
The ONA annual conference is our biggest event and since its inception, it has been given unique branding each year. Sometimes that reflects the subject matter, other times the host city. This year, I set… Read More »Designing a Texas feel for ONA18 in Austin while revamping our design process
Every proper conference needs a microsite, and FiscalNote’s first user conference is no different. Logos and layout were put together by our designer, but I did this WordPress theme basically from scratch, using the Underscores… Read More »Reinvent Influence Website
Project deprecated — Over the summer of 2016, I led six interns to produce a new data journalism blog focused on politics. We developed some great features and processes, but ultimately the project ended with… Read More »Whipboard
This fall will be my third Online News Association conference as a website contractor. Going into the planning of this conference I offered to additionally design the conference logo. A good logo, I argued, needed… Read More »ONA15 Logo
The skills I built as a journalist are always coming in handy. When the Illinois Alumni Association of Greater Washington D.C. (DC Illini) wanted to build a newsletter program, I volunteered my services for design.… Read More »DC Illini Newsletter
Our 2014 data intern tackled migration flows with U.N. data from 1990 to 2013. The visualization of this would be complex: We had the ability to show the origin of people entering a country and… Read More »World Migrants
Providing a way for the public to relate with Pew Research Center findings is often a priority. For our political typology research, we accomplish this with a quiz. From an earlier version of this quiz,… Read More »Typology Quiz