Questions for Jon Schleuss – Aubry Tucker

What does coding mean to a journalist, what kind of things are you accomplishing in coding? What in your background was helpful/fitting that led you to data journalism? How do you remain objective, and not lead the data to what you want to portray?

Questions for Jon Schleuss – Mary Kerr Winters

Have you always desired to be a data journalist or did you have another route in mind? If so, how did you learn to adjust when first starting data journalism? What are some surprising ways your skill set of coding, graphic design, data journalism, photoshop, etc. have...

Questions for Jon Schleuss – Butler

How does one take seemingly meaningless data and turn it into something that will tell a story to readers? How do you turn data into more than just a few pictures? How much of a research component is there to presenting data in an effective way. I’m Ad/PR, so I...

Questions for Jon Schleuss – Andrew Epperson

As a UA graduate, what were the steps you had to take to get your foot in the door with a publication as prestigious as the LA Times? As a second part to that question, did it take some time to feel confident among journalists who graduated from more...

Q’s for Schleuss- Katie Serrano

When I think of data journalism, I think of long, investigative pieces that usually cover more serious of conflict-related issues. While that may be the case the majority of the time, how does someone in your position also go about pitching more...