To all in Investigations, the Knowledge Desk, Knowledge Visualization and Visible Media —
Earlier than she joined the Occasions, Amanda labored as a analysis assistant on the Federal Reserve Board in D.C. She earned her bachelor’s diploma in economics from St. Olaf Faculty and her grasp’s in statistics from the College of Washington.
In her new place at Bloomberg, Amanda will information our information journalism efforts globally, and can spearhead our plan to considerably construct out our data-reporting capabilities throughout the newsroom. She is going to straight handle two groups: the Knowledge Desk, overseen by group chief David Ingold, and the Knowledge Investigations squad, underneath group chief Jason Grotto. Amanda will drive formidable, groundbreaking investigative initiatives and also will broaden the Knowledge Desk so we’ve extra top-tier consultants throughout the globe who can work with all groups and platforms to grab data-reporting alternatives, each short-term and longer-term. Amanda will work intently with our coaching group on finest practices as we proceed to ramp up information abilities on a number of groups. And Amanda and her groups shall be sources for evaluating the rigor and accuracy of our coding and information analyses.
As John Micklethwait has famous, information journalism should be — and more and more is — on the heart of what we do as a information group. We’ve produced excellent, illuminating work that we should always all be happy with. However there’s far more we will do — not least by mining our personal huge trove of information. Amanda brings distinctive expertise, aptitude and journalistic drive to this problem. As our information journalism thought-leader, she’ll assist us all elevate the bar.
Amanda will report back to me and be based mostly in New York. Please cease by to say hey. She begins on Monday.
— Otis