Maureen Linke
Interim Graphics Director at The Washington Post
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaureen Linke is a high-agency visual journalism leader with 12+ years delivering data-driven storytelling and interactive projects across top newsrooms, now serving as Interim Graphics Director at The Washington Post. She combines hands-on design, motion graphics and engineering experience to lead cross-functional teams that lift engagement and revenue, having driven a 4x engagement increase and edited the publication’s top-performing graphics in 2024. Maureen has built and scaled interactive storytelling tools at Gannett and led election and investigative visual strategy at WSJ and AP, work recognized by a Pulitzer and other industry honors. An adjunct instructor in data visualization, she brings both newsroom rigor and product-minded experimentation to complex editorial challenges. Notably, her background spans newsroom production to developer roles, so she speaks fluent design, code and audience analytics.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mass Communications, Broadcast Journalism, Bachelor of Science, Mass Communications, Broadcast Journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
99reputation
15kreached
1answer
10questions
Github Skills (10)
firefox6
javascript6
jquery6
offset6
highcharts6
parsing6
leaflet6
graphic4
axis2
graph1
Github contributions (5)
maureenlinke/practical-dataviz-js
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
maureenlinke/nicar2025-rgraphics
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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