Change by Design: Jer Thorp on All the News That's Fit to Click

Members of the media have long served as societies' filters—separating out what the public needs to know from the vast stores of information available. In today's data-rich world, how are media outlets leveraging new design technologies to tell complex and balanced stories? How are they working with interactive tools to engage audiences in what is now a participatory news cycle? And how are they adapting their editing skills to work as well with ones and zeros as they work with words? Two New York Times data practitioners tell all.

Jer Thorp is a generative software artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. A former geneticist, his work uses custom-written computer programs to explore the boundaries between science, mathematics and art. Thorp is data artist-in-residence at The New York Times and the first artist-in-residence at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. His award-winning, software-based work has been exhibited internationally.

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