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Bloomberg hires Vestal as senior editor for visuals

Allan James Vestal

Bloomberg has hired Allan James Vestal as a senior editor on the graphics team to lead Bloomberg’s data visualization coverage of U.S. elections. He will be based in the Washington bureau.

Since June 2019, Vestal has been at Politico, where he served as a senior news applications developer, and recently as an election projects editor. Before that, he was a computational journalist at The Dallas Morning News, and has worked as a news applications developer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

He interned on, and contributed to the data desk at the Los Angeles Times.

Vestal graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he worked at the student newspaper The Maneater.

Be sure to congratulate Vestal on X/Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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