Ashley Wu
Graphics Multimedia Editor at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Wu is a graphics and multimedia editor with 12 years of experience crafting data-driven visual storytelling across top newsrooms including The New York Times, Apple News operations, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Argentina’s La Nación. She blends journalism training from Northwestern with front-end chops—contributing UI and responsive CSS improvements to the widely used TimelineJS storytelling toolkit—to turn complex reporting into clear, engaging interactives. Comfortable shipping fast under editorial deadlines, she pairs design sensibility with hands-on coding to improve documentation, accessibility, and presentation. Based in New York, she brings a global news perspective and an eye for narrative detail that elevates both daily coverage and long-form projects.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Journalism, Spanish minor, Bachelor of Science (BS), Journalism, Spanish minor at Northwestern University
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
user-interface10
html9
documentation8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
TimelineJS v3: A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript. http://timeline.knightlab.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ashley primarily contributed to the user interface and styling of the TimelineJS project. They added a screencast to the overview page and made several CSS adjustments, including media queries for responsive design. Furthermore, the user updated the documentation by including screenshots and modifying the presentation of the "Publishing Spreadsheet" documentation.
timelinejavascripttimelinejsstorytellingbuilt-in
ashwu/ashwu.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:168 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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