Josh Holder
Senior Visual Editor, Europe at The New York Times
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJosh Holder is a Senior Visual Editor based in London with 11 years of experience translating complex data and newsroom needs into compelling visual storytelling for major publications. He has progressed through roles at The New York Times and The Guardian, moving from software engineering and interactive development into leadership positions shaping graphics and visual projects across Europe. His technical roots—building user-facing and backend features in Scala and JavaScript during theguardian.com launch—inform a pragmatic approach to bringing ambitious designs to production. At NYT he now guides visual strategy and execution, bridging journalists, designers, and engineers to deliver award-caliber interactive journalism. Comfortable both coding and directing creative teams, he excels at turning editorial insight into elegant, performant visual experiences. Outside headline roles, he brings an engineer’s attention to robustness and scalability to every visual project.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Mechanical Engineering at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (10)
guardian10
javascript3
webpack3
interactive3
adobe-illustrator1
adobe1
frontend1
genesis1
docker1
artwork1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
holder-josh/holder-josh.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
guardian/interactive-table-builder
Aug 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 comments, 2 issues in 3 years 4 months
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