About Me

Hi I’m Shradha Dinesh ,

I’m passionate about producing journalism with data and graphics. I recently graduated from William & Mary with a B.S. in data science (concentration in spatial data analysis) and political journalism (a self-designed major).

I’m looking for my next gig as a journalist-developer in a newsroom passionate about expanding data coverage to all beats and finding creative ways to make data and data literacy accessible to reporters and readers.

I’m interested in data as a source for accountability journalism, focusing on creating original datasets/databases and analyses with statistics/machine learning, remotely sensed data, and data visualization.

Currently (since August 2024): data journalist @ the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism (via the Dow Jones News Fund)

Data Journalist, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

June 2024 — present

My role was extended following the 2024 Dow Jones News Fund summer internship

Automated Elections Webscraper, The Associated Press

August 2024 — present

I scrape county/state election websites when results are live (contract for election nights).

ProPublica Emerging Reporters, 2023-24

2023 — 2024

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-emerging-reporters-2023

Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow, Sharp Journalism Seminar & Pulitzer Center

September 2023 — May 2024

Data Journalism Intern, Pew Research Center

June 2023 — August 2023

Co-Director, DisinfoLab (a student-run think tank with W&M’s Global Research Institute)

May 2023 — May 2024

• Mentor qualitative and technical research teams through rigorous research design in topics in mis/disinformation, technology, and politics; guide the production of research op-eds/reports through rounds of editing; and pitch our reporting to various publications
• Identify opportunities to increase lab funding and publicity through grants and student-produced software
• Collaborate with college faculty and community stakeholders to support the lab’s expansion