Sean Mussenden
DataHub Director
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSean Mussenden is a data journalism leader and investigative reporter with over a decade of experience directing student-powered, data-driven investigations that have earned national recognition, including a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist selection. As Director and Executive Editor of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and a principal lecturer at the University of Maryland, he blends hands-on newsroom collaboration with teaching in data science, computational journalism and AI for reporting. He builds and studies AI-augmented tools that help reporters sift hundreds of thousands of documents and responsibly apply machine learning and large language models to investigative work. His projects have partnered with outlets like AP, NPR, The Washington Post and PBS FRONTLINE, producing award-winning, policy-impacting investigations. He also runs a consultancy and mentoring roles teaching practical data science (R, Python, visualization) and newsroom automation to help organizations operationalize complex data pipelines. A PhD candidate in Information Science who bridges academic research and newsroom practice, he uniquely pairs rigorous pedagogy with production-grade tooling for civic reporting.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, Public Policy, 3.65, BA, History, Public Policy, 3.65 at St. Mary's College of MarylandThe University of Maryland, College ParkDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at University of Maryland
Github Skills (15)
data-journalism8
mass8
census4
java4
espn4
communications4
statistics3
names3
journalism3
administration2
security2
elections1
github-desktop1
electron1
desktop1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Howard-Center-Investigations/Howard-Center-Investigations.github.io
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
smussenden/data-journalism-19-spring
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Repo for JOUR 472/772 at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Contributions:142 pushes in 3 months
javajournalismmarylanduniversity-of-maryland
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.