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Bajak departs USA Today for Urban Institute

Aleszu Bajak

Aleszu Bajak, senior data reporter on USA Today’s investigative unit, has left and joined the nonprofit Urban Institute as director of data visualization.

Bajak founded and edited Storybench.org, a publication from Northeastern University’s School of Journalism exploring the future of digital storytelling and data journalism. He also founded LatinAmericaScience.org, a platform for science news and opinion out of Latin America.

His work appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Undark, Nature, Science, The Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, Vox, The Atlantic and Esquire.

Bajak has a B.A. from Amherst College and a master’s degree from Northeastern University.

You can congratulate Bajak via Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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