How should stories be approached when the desired outcome is to have impact and hold people or organizations to account? As journalists we know how to spot a story and how to tell them effectively, bu...
Lam Thuy Vo
Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is currently an investigative reporter working with Documented, an independent, non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities, and an associate professor of data journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
Previously, she was a journalist at The Markup, BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and NPR's Planet Money. She's brought her research about misinformation and the impact of algorithms on our political views to institutions like Harvard, Georgetown, MIT, Columbia and Data and Society. In 2019, she published a
Her book Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data was publised in 2019 by No Starch Press.
Events IJF 2025
How can we have conversations with data? Is working with data like a conversation? How is data being used as a “source” in journalism, alongside interviews and other content? How are journalists u...
Digital transformation is driving huge changes in our industry, including newsrooms themselves. A decade ago, it would have been surprising to find developers, digital designers, audience specialists ...
