Peggy Bustamante
Associate Professor Of Digital Journalism At Annenberg School Of Communication
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolPeggy Bustamante is an associate professor of digital journalism at USC Annenberg who teaches journalists to use code and data to tell compelling news stories. With 12+ years building newsroom web applications, she spans the full stack—HTML/CSS/JavaScript front ends and PHP, Python, MySQL and Unix back ends—applied to interactive projects and data visualizations. Her career bridges daily-news editing and large-scale newsroom engineering, from Newsday and Harvard to national projects at Digital First Media. She has led diversity and strategic initiatives at USC, showing she pairs technical leadership with institutional change-making. Known for shipping popular interactive work like audience-facing predictors and polls, she brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach to teaching and product development. A Cambridge-educated journalist with an MA from Harvard in Information Technology/Digital Media (3.96 GPA), she quickly translates new technologies into newsroom-ready tools.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Information Technology/Digital Media, GPA: 3.96, Dean's List, M.A., Information Technology/Digital Media, GPA: 3.96, Dean's List at Harvard UniversityCambridge High and Latin School
English, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
thunderdome-data/ballot
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 2 days
thunderdome-data/bracket-advisor
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 2 days
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