Jason French
Graphics Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJason French is a Graphics Reporter at the Wall Street Journal with 11 years of experience turning complex data into engaging interactive and static visualizations. He blends newsroom instincts with front-end and scripting skills—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby—to build news interactives that clarify stories for broad audiences. Before WSJ he bridged development and operations at Sky, building internal test environments on Beaker, Jenkins and AWS, and cut his teeth rebuilding local news sites with WordPress and custom code. Based in the UK, he combines rigorous journalism training (BA First, University of Winchester) with production-focused engineering, comfortable shipping polished visuals under tight deadlines. Colleagues rely on him for storytelling through code and pragmatic solutions that keep newsroom tooling reliable and fast.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Journalism, First, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Journalism, First at University of WinchesterProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jasonleefrench/portfolio
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:62 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
jasonleefrench/blog
Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:17 PRs, 24 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 11 months
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