NY Times hires Bloomberg’s McCartney as graphics story editor

Allison McCartney

New York Times graphics editor Archie Tse sent out the following on Tuesday:

We’re excited to announce that Allison McCartney is joining the Graphics department as a story editor focused on elections and other data projects. She will start by jumping into our midterm election efforts as we build out our results presentation for November.
Allison was a special projects editor at Bloomberg News where she led and published results graphics and analysis for a variety of elections, and reported and edited graphics on stories like big oil emissions and the Jan. 6 riot. She started at Bloomberg as a graphics developer after previous roles at ProPublica and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.
Allison earned a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University, and received her undergraduate degree from Washington University where she studied Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies, Arabic and art.
Please welcome her to The Times.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.