Miranda Neubauer

About

Interested in the intersection of journalism, politics, data, and technology. Bilingual English-German.I have pursued my interest in open data, broadband policy and government innovation with bylines at the Politico New York, City and State, the Sunlight Foundation, and Personal Democracy Media's techPresident. As an American who grew up bilingual in Germany, I have both English/German translation and local German reporting experience, as well as familiarity with issues in U.S./European-German relations.I was a member of the inaugural Lede Program Class at the Columbia Journalism School, a certificate program focused on Python programming, data science and algorithms. I am a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School's M.S. program with a digital media concentration and Brandeis University with a B.A. in American Studies and Journalism. As a senior writer for the student newspaper The Justice, I exclusively broke coverage of university measures in response to the 2009 financial crisis.Specialties:Excellent skills in online research and dealing with social media.Expert proficiency using GSuite/Google Workspace, Outlook/Microsoft 365, Windows 10, RSS, Drupal, Blogger & Wordpress, Mailchimp, LexisNexis.Experience with Pacer, HTML, Python, Pandas, APIs, MongoDB, Excel, Fusion Tables, mapping.Familiarity with MySQL, QGIS, Tilemill, Actionscript, FinalCut and Photoshop.While my most recent reporting experience has focused on New York City, I work hard to maintain a global outlook: I am a dual U.S./Austrian citizen and German secondary school graduate (Abitur). I have had extensive travel experience in Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, the U.K, the Netherlands, Iceland and Israel.