Erin Caughey
Newsroom Developer at San Francisco Chronicle
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErin Caughey is a newsroom developer with a decade of experience building data-driven storytelling and digital products for investigative journalism, currently shaping interactive coverage at the San Francisco Chronicle. A self-taught front-end engineer with formal journalism and digital strategy training, she blends code, design and reporting to produce compelling multimedia narratives. Her work has contributed to Pulitzer-finalist and duPont-, Murrow- and SPJ-awarded projects, and she helped steer the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s digital strategy as part of a Knight-Temple Table Stakes team. Comfortable shipping production features and visualizations, Erin has a track record of turning complex datasets into clear public-facing stories. She’s as likely to mentor a student newsroom as she is to prototype a new interactive graphic, reflecting a career that spans newsroom leadership, technical direction and hands-on development. Based in Milwaukee, she brings a journalist’s rigor to front-end engineering for accountability reporting.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasBachelor's Degree, Journalism, 3.6/4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Journalism, 3.6/4.0 at Marquette UniversityBusiness, Marketing, Business, Marketing at University College Dublin
English, Italian
Github Skills (4)
sentinel9
journal9
data-science4
ruby1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erincaughey/erincaughey.github.io
Nov 2017 - Feb 2024
me
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
datahub/data-sources
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 10 months
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