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ProPublica announced on Tuesday that Chris Alcantara has joined the graphics team as a graphics editor. In this role, Alcantara will develop, design and build charts, maps, data visualizations and visual stories.<\/p>\n
Alcantara comes to ProPublica from The Washington Post, where he was a graphics reporter for almost 10 years and published ambitious data visualizations and interactives that covered a range of national and world news. He also built reporting tools and programs that helped collect and analyze data, as well as led production of data pipelines for the U.S. presidential and midterm elections and the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
Before the Post, Alcantara was an interactive news developer at the Miami Herald, where he created interactive stories and data-driven graphics, as part of a three-person visuals team, and contributed data reporting to the newspaper\u2019s investigations team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome Chris to the graphics team,\u201d said Lena Groeger, graphics director. \u201cChris brings over a decade of experience creating data visualizations that clarify complex topics and reveal important findings through visual storytelling. We can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProPublica does valuable work,\u201d Alcantara said, \u201cand I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity to join the team and eager to contribute visual storytelling to the newsroom\u2019s investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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