Daniel Lathrop
Freelance Journalist And Programmer
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Lathrop is a freelance journalist and programmer with 11 years of experience blending investigative reporting, data journalism, and storytelling. He has contributed to major outlets including The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight and The Marshall Project, and was an investigative producer on the Emmy-winning Scripps News Data Team after reporting at The Des Moines Register. A former data editor and news applications lead at The Dallas Morning News and a journalism professor at the University of Iowa, he pairs newsroom chops with technical fluency in data-driven reporting. Author of two books and recipient of the White House Correspondents Association Edgar A. Poe Award and multiple Sigma Delta Chi honors, he’s equally comfortable writing long-form investigations and building reproducible data tools. Based in Iowa City, he brings a rare mix of ethics-focused training in economics and philosophy and practical experience turning complex public-interest datasets into clear, impactful narratives.
11 years of coding experience
BA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at Haverford CollegeCertificate, Ethics and Economics, Certificate, Ethics and Economics at Institute on Political Journalism
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Github Skills (115)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lathropd/slidetrack
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:140 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
DallasMorningNews/theshrinkray
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 2 months
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