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The Washington Post taps Tierney as graphics assignment editor for Local

February 1, 2021

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

Lauren Tierney

Lauren Tierney is now the graphics assignment editor for Local at The Washington Post. Previously, she was a graphics reporter and cartographer at the Post.

She was also editor of Atlas of Design (North American Cartographic Information Society). She has also worked at National Geographic for more than 2 years, joining as a cartographic production specialist and then holding the post of cartographer and then that of graphics editor, cartography.

She was also a student board member of the North American Cartographic Information Society and a graduate research assistant at the InfoGraphics Lab at the University of Oregon. She has also served as a conservation GIS analyst at Audubon Alaska.

She was also a student cartographic/GIS specialist and then a cartographic/GIS specialist at InfoGraphics Lab.

Tierney is a B.A.in Geography and Spanish and an M.S. in Geography from the University of Oregon.

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