Tim Meko
Deputy Director Of Graphics at The Washington Post
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Meko is a visual journalism leader with 11+ years of experience directing data visualization and graphics at top newsrooms and research institutions, most recently joining OpenAI’s intelligence and investigations team after an eight-year tenure as Deputy Director of Graphics at The Washington Post. He combines hands-on reporting, cartography, and design with editorial judgment under pressure, routinely shaping visual standards and stepping in on high-risk, time-sensitive projects. Tim builds and mentors teams (roughly 25 people at Post) while driving responsible adoption of AI tools to speed workflows without surrendering human accountability. His work emphasizes clarity and defensibility—making data visualization easier to use and harder to misuse—and he has a track record of developing standards and systems that scale across newsrooms and research organizations. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings both practical craft (from freelancing to newsroom leadership) and academic training in visual communication to complex investigative storytelling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Arts, Photography (specialization in Information Graphics and Publication Design), Masters of Arts, Photography (specialization in Information Graphics and Publication Design) at Ohio UniversityBA, Digital Imaging & Application Design, BA, Digital Imaging & Application Design at Transylvania University
Github Skills (33)
qgis7
spatial7
gis6
openstreetmap6
wps6
system-information5
shapefile5
data-management5
gdal5
jquery5
geotools5
tms4
bootstrap4
ogc4
wcs4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UrbanInstitute/TPC-styleguide
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
timmeko/timmeko
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:52 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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