Samantha Sunne
Freelance Journalist
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolSamantha Sunne is a freelance investigative and data journalist based in New Orleans with 14 years of experience producing grant-funded reporting for outlets including NPR, The Washington Post and ProPublica. She designs and teaches data- and tech-focused journalism curricula worldwide—at institutions from Harvard’s Nieman to Columbia’s Lede Program—and has trained newsrooms from Cape Town to Central Asia. As organizer and former Community Director for Hacks/Hackers, she helped launch chapters in multiple countries and built tooling to track global newsroom job openings to boost diversity. Her reporting has earned national recognition and awards, and she pairs deep public-records and computer-assisted reporting skills with practical automation (including newsroom scripting) to increase reporting efficiency. An uncommon strength is her blend of hands-on investigative reporting and systems-level work mentoring anti-misinformation networks like MisinfoCon.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, Spanish at Universidad Austral, Buenos AiresSwedish, Social Studies, Swedish, Social Studies at Lund UniversityUniversity of Missouri
English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (18)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
static-content10
open-data5
wordpress5
monitor5
editors4
ckan3
jekyll3
metadata3
data-management2
postgresql2
database2
data-catalog2
metadata-management2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hackshackers/hackshackers-hugo-content
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Static content directory for Hacks/Hackers
Contributions:401 commits, 17 PRs, 366 pushes in 3 years 5 months
hackersdirectorystatic-content
hackshackers/hackshackers-hugo
Mar 2017 - Feb 2023
Hugo configuration and theme for Hacks/Hackers
Contributions:13 reviews, 811 commits, 34 PRs in 5 years 11 months
hackershugohugo-theme
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