Yan Lu
Managing Data Editor
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Lu is an award-winning data editor and newsroom builder with 11 years of experience creating data-driven storytelling across the U.S. and China. As Managing Data Editor at ThePaper.cn she launched and now leads a 20+ person team, setting workflows, tooling and long-term strategy while delivering high-impact explanatory reporting on social issues and public opinion. She combines newsroom product thinking with hands-on technical initiatives—building scraping tools for judicial documents and a custom chart builder to boost reporting efficiency. A seasoned educator and trainer, she has taught data journalism at Fudan and run multiple workshops to grow the craft in China. Trained at the University of Missouri and Peking University, she blends rigorous journalistic standards with practical data and visualization expertise.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism (Major), History (Minor), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism (Major), History (Minor) at Peking UniversityUniversity of Missouri
English, ChineseGithub contributions (4)
aileen880401/lede-2021-data-module
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 days
aileen880401/DJShowcases
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
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