I actually love fireworks, but wonder what 🌍impacts these crowd-pleasing💥explosions💥 have. This project gave me an opportunity to dive into the research, map it out, and sketch up the explainer. Despite being a national celebration Grinch, I fully embrace the 🇺🇲colors. #WIP

Lawmakers released this massive investigation today in response to our reporting The Markup, finding tech companies acted “with stunning disregard for taxpayer privacy” x.com/SenWarren/stat…

We're at the midway point in the #WNBA season, so I decided to write my own WNBA Elo model and publish a forecast page to share the results! The Las Vegas Aces are runaway title favorites, but the New York Liberty and Connecticut Sun each have a puncher's chance. ryanabest.com/2023-wnba-pred…

During an average wildfire season in Canada, 24,600 square km of land will burn. This year is different. reuters.com/graphics/CANAD…

1/2: Why reducing food waste is one of the fastest ways to fight back against climate change: reuters.com/graphics/FOOD-…

1/9 Most of us don’t know we waste food at home more than anywhere, causing harms to our planet. My latest project w/ Ally J. Levine+@ClareMTrainor illustrates multiple solutions to keep food out of landfills🍌🗑️:reut.rs/45aOxDn 👇Here’s a glimpse of how we made it!

A combination of strong winds sweeping down the West Maui mountains and invasive grasses fueled America's deadliest fire in more than a century. With Reuters Graphics Daisy Chung (鍾彥儒） Julia Wolfe reuters.com/graphics/HAWAI…

Working on Disney’s story of creation took me back to my childhood days. The sheer joy of creating this piece of work along with @adolfoux Ally J. Levine Dea Bankova (@deabankova.bsky.social) and Julia Wolfe is unmatched. This is our ode to Disney’s 100 years of craftsmanship. reuters.com/graphics/DISNE…

A vast treasure of critical minerals lies on the ocean floor. Should they be extracted to help fight climate change? reuters.com/graphics/MININ…

🧊 Here's something cool. Today Reuters is announcing a new partnership with Newmark J-School. Beginning in summer '24 there will be a set-aside slot for a CUNY student to intern with the Reuters News Applications Desk in NYC. Applications open now! forms.office.com/r/s3yUNYqxPA

2023: A wild year of weather in the hottest year on record reuters.com/graphics/CLIMA…

i forgot you could sometimes see good and wonderful things here

New Unwrapped speaker (the 2nd one today!): Julia Wolfe will talk about bringing Datawrapper to a newsroom, first at FiveThirtyEight and now at Reuters. Learn more about Julia and the Datawrapper chart she's most proud of: blog.datawrapper.de/reuters-julia-…

Months spent legislating mandatory bills. Infighting. Poison pills. Decreasing bipartisanship. It's not just you – Congress really is getting less productive. reuters.com/graphics/USA-C…

do I get a present for working on the graphics team for both theme day newsrooms?

We’re hiring! Interested in leading our talented graphics team in Asia? We are looking for an innovative Graphics Editor to direct our coverage from Asia and guide our award-winning team. Apply below 👇 thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Caree… thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Caree…

How do we know poll data accurately represents American demographics? Here's one way pollsters make sense of the numbers reuters.com/graphics/USA-E… reuters.com/graphics/USA-E…

Poultry and cows on farms risk exposure to sick wild birds migrating across the Americas. One way to understand the spread of bird flu is to look at the path of the mallard duck: reuters.com/graphics/HEALT…

🗞️ Cool thing: Julia Wolfe is about to ship the first automatically generated hurricane map to ever hit the Reuters wire. It's all courtesy of this summer's star intern, CUNY's very own Tiana McGee.

It seems like bluesky is happening again? I'm here: Julia Wolfe.bsky.social