Jon Mcclure
Visuals Editor at Reuters
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJon Mcclure is a Visuals Editor with 13 years of experience combining newsroom leadership, data journalism and front-end development to produce rigorous interactive storytelling. Currently at Reuters and formerly leading developer-journalists at POLITICO and The Dallas Morning News, he builds full-stack applications, interactive graphics and enterprise editorial systems—often for high-stakes election and investigative coverage. He blends hands-on UI contributions (including work on the widely used Storybook project around syntax highlighting and Next.js image handling) with managing teams that translate complex datasets into clear narratives. His background in investigative data work has been recognized for statistical rigor, and he trains newsroom staff in quantitative analysis and visualization. Based in London with a master's in journalism, he brings a rare mix of editorial judgment, technical craft, and product-minded leadership to journalistic technology.
13 years of coding experience
University of KansasFAU Erlangen-NürnbergUniversity of Missouri
English, German
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Github Skills (13)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
syntax-highlighting10
storybook10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
react10
html9
nextjs9
css8
web-components7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/storybook
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 26 days
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the UI components of the Storybook project, focusing on code highlighting and syntax rendering. Their commits involved modifying and refactoring the `SyntaxHighlighter` component, including integrating custom syntax highlighting for specific languages. Furthermore, the user addressed type-related issues and integrated the Next.js image loader stub. They also worked on integrating and configuring the Next.js image loader for static images.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
reuters-graphics/html-webpack-prerender-plugin
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
A plugin to prerender and inject JavaScript apps into the static markup generated by html-webpack-plugin at build time.
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 6 months
webpack-pluginbabelprerenderhtml-webpack-pluginjavascript
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