Soo Oh
Deputy Managing Editor at CalMatters
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSoo Oh is a data-driven investigative editor and manager with 12 years of experience building interactive journalism, leading data and product teams, and coaching reporters in newsrooms from The Wall Street Journal to nonprofit outlets like Reveal and The Markup. As Deputy Managing Editor at CalMatters/The Markup, she oversees Data/Interactives and Product while completing a ProPublica investigative editing fellowship, blending hands-on coding and visualization expertise with editorial strategy. She taught data and design to graduate students at UC Berkeley and has a track record of shipping newsroom tools and interactive projects that surface policy-relevant data stories. Comfortable with scraping, geospatial work, and building internal tooling, she specializes in turning messy public data into clear narratives and impactful visuals. Soo is also an active mentor for journalists of color entering data and investigative fields, offering informal career and technical guidance.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Science, Computer Science at Los Angeles City College, Pasadena City College
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Github Skills (47)
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data-journalism7
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discord-bot6
campfire6
census6
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javascript6
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ruby5
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
journ220/journ220.github.io
Jan 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:101 pushes, 5 branches, 4 issues in 2 years 3 months
soooh/soooh.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:49 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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