Newsday interactives.
A selection of the investigations, data stories, and storytelling experiments my team designed and built at Newsday, mobile first and often hand-coded.
In one of the most concentrated investigations of discrimination by real estate agents in the half century since the landmark fair housing law, Newsday found evidence of widespread separate and unequal treatment of minority homebuyers and communities on Long Island. My team worked for three years with all parts of the organization to present it.
An investigation into how politicians used land annexing to launder public money. We stepped readers through the data in small snippets, with visuals from the public land that was photographed.
A story about intimate weddings during the pandemic, told on a wedding cake whose layers reveal new information as you scroll. The concept came from designer Mark Levitas. I led the development inside Newsday’s WordPress-based secondary system, which I initially designed and refined over six years.
The culmination of the mobile-first display frameworks my team built over the years: an adaptive template that lets editors place text and headlines over full-width, edge-to-edge images and video, used for a series of Long Island ghost stories.
A way to showcase Newsday’s work beyond the standard story template: a mobile experience that mirrors an Instagram story, with separate video cuts, text included, for mobile and for desktop and larger devices.
What Long Island parents name their little ones, from Isabella to Michael, Thor to Khaleesi, based on 2007–2016 NYS Board of Health data. GIF animations and scroll-timed slides gave readers something to look forward to, and aimed to lift ad viewability.
A map-based interface for the state’s restaurant inspection data across Nassau. With so much data, we let users enter their area to get a smaller, digestible segment based on location.