Propublica announced Tuesday that Chris Alcantara has joined the graphics team as graphics editor. In this role, Alcantara will develop, design and build charts, maps, data visualizations and visual stories.
Alcantara came to ProPublica from the Washington Post, where he has been a graphic journalist for nearly 10 years and has published ambitious data visualization and interactions covering a range of national and world news. He also established reporting tools and programs to help collect and analyze data and produce data pipelines for the U.S. presidential and midterm elections and the Olympics.
Prior to the post, Alcantara was an interactive news developer for the Miami Herald, where he created interactive storytelling and data-driven graphics as part of a three-person visual team and contributed data reporting to the newspaper’s investigation team.
“I’m very happy to welcome Chris to the graphics team,” said Lena Groeger, graphics director. “Chris brings a decade of experience to create data visualizations that shed light on complex topics and reveal important findings through visual storytelling. We can’t wait to get started.”
“ProPublica does valuable work, and I’m excited to have the opportunity to join the team and be eager to make visual storytelling for the newsroom investigation,” Alcantara said.
