Sarah Frostenson
Assistant Editor, Visuals D.C. at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Frostenson is an experienced visual journalist and editor with 12 years of leading data-driven, visually ambitious coverage at top newsrooms including The New York Times and The Washington Post. She specializes in coordinating cross-disciplinary teams to produce rapid-response breaking news and deep enterprise projects, and was part of the team that won a 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Equally comfortable with code-driven interactives and newsroom leadership, she has a track record of award-winning projects from FiveThirtyEight, Vox, and USA TODAY-era Gannett work. A committed manager who seeks diverse perspectives, she experiments with form to boost reader engagement and builds collaborative newsroom cultures. Her background in data journalism and a Fulbright-era field research project hints at a blend of technical rigor and on-the-ground curiosity that informs her storytelling.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Media, Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Media at Poynter InstituteBA History High Honors; Minor Environmental Studies, BA History High Honors; Minor Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (28)
code-behind10
database6
sql6
bulk-insert6
sql-insert6
postgresql6
yeoman4
map-tiles4
mbtiles4
mvt3
tilemap3
tiles3
scaffold3
yeoman-generator3
aws-s33
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sfrostenson/talks
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
sfrostenson/datascihack
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 days
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