David Blood
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDavid Blood is a multi-award-winning visual and data journalist with over a decade of experience crafting data-driven storytelling at top news organisations including BBC News, CNN, The Guardian and the Financial Times. He combines creative direction and hands-on technical leadership—building React/Three.js component libraries, Python data pipelines and bespoke WebGL/interactive frameworks—to deliver large-scale visual journalism from concept to production. His work has won major industry prizes and driven real-world reporting, from investigations that shaped on-the-ground coverage to projects attracting hundreds of thousands of readers. He also brings experience in open-source investigation and securing privileged data partnerships with providers like Mapbox and Planet Labs. Now leading editorial creativity at BBC News, he blends newsroom strategy, product-minded front-end engineering and investigative technique to push visual formats forward. A former founder and educator, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a practical knack for making complex datasets communicable and reusable.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
graphic9
heroku9
nodejs9
react7
driver7
vocabulary6
metalsmith5
boilerplate4
starter-kit3
webpack3
mapbox-gl2
charts2
json1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davidbjourno/making-interactive-graphics
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
‘Making interactive graphics with D3 and React’, an original tutorial for Journocoders London, October 12, 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 3 years
graphicreact
ft-interactive/one-belt-one-road
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 months
mapbox-glreportsmapmapbox
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