Reuben Fischer-baum
Senior Data Editor
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReuben Fischer-baum is a senior data editor and visual journalist with 12 years of experience building reader-facing data products and visual storytelling at organizations including Yahoo News, The Washington Post, and FiveThirtyEight. He leads teams that turn complex datasets into clear, interactive narratives and now helps build the newly formed Data Services team at Yahoo News. In parallel he teaches data visualization and narrative design at Brown, RISD, and previously Parsons, blending academic rigor with newsroom deadlines. A 2022 Nieman Fellow with a background in environmental studies from Yale, he combines policy-minded research skills with practical design and coding fluency to make data accessible to broad audiences. Notably, his career mixes hands-on graphics reporting with editorial leadership, giving him both craft-level and product-level perspective on visual journalism.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA with distinction, Environmental Studies, BA with distinction, Environmental Studies at Yale University
Github Skills (17)
code-behind10
nyc9
tax6
newline4
python4
microdata3
calculator3
css2
javascript2
delimited2
jsonpath1
json-parser1
json1
jq1
cli1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
reubenfb/homepage
Sep 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 500 pushes, 9 branches in 8 years 5 months
reubenfb/reubenfb.github.io
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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