Sarah Slobin

About

I'm a visual/data journalist, I work with data, news and visual storytelling. Currently, I work on projects on the graphics desk at Reuters - at the moment, politics. My work at Reuters has been part of two Pulitzer prizes.I spent the early part of my career at The New York Times, where I learned graphics and news with some of the best journalists in the world. At the Times I worked through all the major news desks. My last assignment was as editor managing the graphics team for the business section. I left the Times to be the infographics director at Fortune and to learn to make magazines. Fortune was an expansive time for me creatively and I was lucky to work with our colleagues at CNNMoney as well as be part of the team that redesigned Fortune.com. Next, I was a visual editor at the Wall Street Journal. Over six years at the Journal my work spanned from deep data dives to long-form multimedia pieces to new social products to straight-forward infographics. I ran graphics teams for the Business & Tech section and the Money & Investing section - the 'Wall Street' part of The Wall Street Journal. Following the WSJ I did a tour at Quartz, where I ran the Things team, contributed to a book and hired the first women and women of color on the team.I am story-form agnostic, committed to experimenting and most engaged when I push boundaries. Paying it forward is critical to me -I have mentors who have changed my life. I have spent 5 years teaching Storytelling with Data, a fundamentals class for the New School's Journalism + Design program.