Jon Schleuss
President at NewsGuild-CWA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJon Schleuss is a data-driven journalist, educator, and labor leader with 13 years of experience turning complex datasets into clear visual stories and newsroom strategy. As President of The NewsGuild-CWA since 2019, he combines organizing and policy work with hands-on expertise in data journalism developed at the Los Angeles Times, where he built interactive maps and news packages from large scraped datasets. He’s taught coding and data skills to aspiring journalists at USC Annenberg and brings newsroom product sensibilities from earlier roles in digital publishing and public radio. Based in Washington, D.C., Jon is on a mission to modernize unions for the digital era, blending storytelling, technical fluency, and activist tactics in ways that shape both coverage and labor policy.
13 years of coding experience
Communication - New Media, Communication - New Media at Centenary College of LouisianaB.A., Journalism, Art, Business, B.A., Journalism, Art, Business at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (61)
openstreetmap10
geospatial10
earth10
vector10
gis10
cartography10
openstreetmap-data10
maps10
topojson10
campfire8
discord-bot8
vector-graphics8
mapzen8
tangram8
hubot8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maptimeLA/GIS-Resources-Map
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:79 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
mapgeospatialgis
datadesk/web-map-maker
May 2016 - Jul 2019
Use Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap data to export an image or a vector file.
Contributions:5 releases, 475 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 3 months
natural-earthopenstreetmap-datatopojsongeospatialexport
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