Tom Cardoso
Investigative Reporter
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTom Cardoso is an award-winning investigative reporter at The Globe and Mail with 11 years of experience digging into systemic injustice, government transparency, and financial wrongdoing. Based in Toronto and originally from Brazil, he blends a rare visual-data background with tenacious freedom-of-information filing to turn large, messy datasets into impactful narratives. His investigations have exposed bias in federal prison risk assessments, gaps in pandemic relief, and failures in Canada’s access-to-information regime, work recognized by national and international journalism awards. Before investigations he honed data visualization and newsroom tooling as a graphics editor, which explains his knack for combining design thinking with long-form reporting. He also helped probe the Catholic Church’s finances in reporting that contributed to a Michener Award-winning series. Outside the newsroom he experiments in the kitchen, cultivates a green thumb, and shares a home with a dog and a cat who maintain an uneasy truce.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Arts, Cinema Studies Specialist, Honours Bachelor of Arts, Cinema Studies Specialist at University of TorontoSummer Intensive Studio, Architecture, Summer Intensive Studio, Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
99reputation
3kreached
2answers
8questions
Github Skills (180)
charting10
font-face10
chartjs-plugin10
wkhtmltopdf10
charts10
data-journalism10
google-charts10
photoshop10
gantt-chart10
editors10
visualization10
chartjs10
responsive10
html-to-pdf10
react10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
globeandmail/facebook-political-ads
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Monitoring Facebook political ads
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 issue in 4 months
adspoliticalfacebookpolitical-adsmonitoring
globeandmail/upstartr
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
An R package powering core startr functionality
Contributions:2 releases, 40 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
r-packagedatadata-analysisdata-journalismdata-visualization
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