Maryjo Webster
Data Editor
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaryjo Webster is a data journalist and investigative reporter with 11 years leading data-driven storytelling, currently serving as Data Editor at the Star Tribune in Saint Paul. She builds newsroom capacity—training reporters, creating accessible datasets and tools, and shepherding investigations that hold government spending and officials accountable. Her work blends hands-on data analysis, interactive projects and collaborative reporting, informed by prior roles at USA TODAY, Digital First Media and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Maryjo also teaches data journalism at the university level and has a long history of launching public-facing databases that make complex finance and political data usable for readers. Colleagues rely on her to translate messy public records into clear, impactful narratives that spur accountability.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Journalism, Bachelor's Journalism at University of Wisconsin-River FallsUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (30)
data-journalism10
census10
quantile10
python8
dataframes8
r-package7
data-science7
missing-data7
tidyverse7
tidymodels7
tidy7
journalism7
climate-change6
carbon-emissions6
addin6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mjwebster/schools_mca
Jan 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
striblab/data-documentation
Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
DataDrop team (database) documentation.
Contributions:98 pushes in 4 years 9 months
memgraphnested-objectsdatabasedatabase-documentationpii
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