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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻

@laurakurtzberg.bsky.social
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I make (and teach others how to make) interactive maps, data visualizations, and web applications for news and storytelling! See my work at: laurajael.com

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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just put together this Starter Pack of speakers for AccessFest 2026 :) go.bsky.app/UxVHXmQ Please let me know if you're a speaker and I missed you! Also, our schedule of talks is out, check it out: schedules.ire.org/accessfest-2... 🌟
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'll be attending with my bunny slippers on, and my water boiler + tea bags for endless tea. 🍵🫖
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today I'm training a group of journalists that came all the way from South Korea to American University to learn from @ire.org before #IRE26 gets officially underway! I'm honored to be participating in this custom training. Thank you to @aviationqueen.bsky.social for this picture!
Laura Kurtzberg stands in the American University investigative newsroom next to a screen that shows an introductory slide which says "Hey all, I'm Laura K". Text on the slide also reads "data viz specialist, cartographer, and news applications developer with a particular interest in environmental stories. Talk to me about crochet and your favorite novels!"
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/04/2026
For all of the interest in pretending that inequalities are a function of will or that structural racism is in the distant past: 12 million people were born in Jim Crow states before Jim Crow ended — and still live there today. Gift link:
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Philip Bump: How recent is America's past?
Things that Americans think of as having long ago were, in fact, within the lifespans of most of us.
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Reposting with hashtags! #NICAR26 #NICAR2026 Check out the start pack at bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NICAR is next week already? I just added a bunch more speakers to the starter pack! Should be up-to-date now! Also, check out the NICAR schedule: schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I am so looking forward to being around this community of data journalists. If you are a NICAR speaker and I missed you, please DM me so I can add you to this starter pack! go.bsky.app/H7iUZYd
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If you've ever found a long-lost page on @archive.org, you know the importance of preserving our digital history. 💻💾⬅️ I'm particularly excited about this training program @ire.org is developing to help preserve news information for the future. If you work in journalism, you should apply!
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JAWS (Journalism & Women Symposium) @womenjournos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
From ICE raids to protests, journalists are at risk in public these days more than ever. So how should you prepare before a public event? Our panel will offer solid advice on how to stay safe and action to take if you find yourself in danger. Register now for this free #JAWS webinar:
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JAWS Webinar: Safety Tips for Journalists — JAWS
FREE WEBINAR NOVEMBER 19: Stay safe out there! From ICE raids to protests, journalists are at risk in public these days more than ever. So how should you prepare before a public event? Our panel...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 17/10/2025
Want to find out what other types of environmental damage can be observed from space? You can learn about the different bands of satellite imagery and what they can reveal here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Seeing More With Satellite Imagery
Multispectral satellite images can reveal useful information about the world, such as mining activity and changes in vegetation.
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 17/10/2025
Covering a No Kings rally this weekend? Review @rcfp.org's legal guide that explains how to stay safe and avoid arrest while reporting on protests: rcfp.org/resources/po... It's also available as a concise tip-sheet: www.rcfp.org/wp-content/u...
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Police, Protesters, and the Press | The Reporters Committee
This guide helps journalists understand their rights and avoid arrest when reporting at protests by summarizing the legal landscape.
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Another presentation done, this time in Athens, Greece, thanks to an invitation from #iMEdDIJF25 and collaboration from @maltepioti.bsky.social Here's the link! kutt.it/satellite-data
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Free_satellite_imagery_and_data_iMedD_IJ25
Introduction to Satellite Data iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025 How to use free satellite imagery and data to investigate natural disasters
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GIJN em Português @gijnportugues.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🛰️ Há uma percepção entre redações pequenas de que imagens de satélite são limitadas por acordos de exclusividade ou habilidades avançadas de dados. Mas, a instrutora @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social e o repórter @sadbumblebee.buzz compartilham uma realidade bem mais acessível:
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Dicas para jornalistas obterem imagens de satélite gratuitas
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Alvin Chang @alv9n.com · 13/06/2025
My latest piece for @puddingviz.bsky.social: 30 minutes with a stranger
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30 minutes with a stranger
Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This is Sue’s story. But it could be the story of any of the roughly half a dozen families I spoke to for this investigation. And it’s the story of what failure over three decades means for real people, a mother and son.
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The tragic consequences of PA's failed mental health system
One family's story reveals the human cost of hospital closures, funding cuts, and the resulting failures in Pennsylvania's mental health care system.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I wrote about one of the strangest things that's ever happened to me—and it happened just last week. A story about doomed books, expectations that exceed others' capacities, and the profound intertwingled magic of humanity.
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Pity the person who needs something from me
A highly unlikely series of events, with receipts.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/06/2025
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
A chart showing cancelled NIH grants
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It was a pleasure presenting at the Society for Environmental Journalists pre-conference workshop: Investigating the Biggest Story on the Planet. Here are my slides for those who are interested! bit.ly/sej-mapping-toolbox
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Visualization and mapping toolbox for complex climate data investigations (SEJ)
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If anyone is looking for the slides from my sessions at #nicar25, please check them out at bit.ly/satellite-pa... and bit.ly/satellite-ha...! And big thanks to @cchurchili.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz for being on the panel with me.
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Jennifer LaFleur @jlaf.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Come map with us!
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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 10/02/2025
On my way to FOIA the info you wouldn't give me
Kendrick Lamar performing at Super Bowl
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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Applications are due *this Sunday*!! Take your newsroom to the next level with this completely free (in-person or online, up to you) training. It costs nothing to apply! 🎉 This is for newsrooms in the US.
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...
Octavia E. Butler, the late-pioneering Black science fiction novelist who wrote about a wildfire from climate change starting on February 1, 2025, in her novel "Parable of the Sower," is buried in an Altadena cemetery.

The cemetery caught fire, the LA Times reports.
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm ready to experience winter! See you there!
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
**~some news~** I am now a Training Director with Investigative Reporters and Editors! I'm so excited to be joining the IRE training team! Here's a little post about IRE hiring me: www.ire.org/ire-hiring-n... 🎉
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Data viz specialist Laura Kurtzberg to join IRE training team - Investigative Reporters & Editors
IRE is thrilled to announce the hiring of Laura Jael Kurtzberg as the team’s newest training director.
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Florida International University in sunny Miami is looking for a new full-time faculty member to teach courses about game design and animation. Please share and consider applying! Apply at: go.fiu.edu/games-animation-apply
A photo of a group of people making the "paws up" hand gesture and smiling. The dean of the College of Communication, architecture, and the arts stands at the center. The text reads: "we are hiring! assistant teaching professor, games and animation. For more information and to apply, visit go.fiu.edu/games-animation-apply"
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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 13/11/2024
Hello Bluesky 👋 IRE is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of journalism. We provide training, resources and a community of support to journalists around the world. www.ire.org
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Investigative Reporters & Editors - Investigative Reporters & Editors
Investigative Reporters and Editors is a nonprofit dedicated to educating, training, connecting and empowering journalists around the world.
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A few people have asked me to explain how my Every Bird visualizations work. Let's use the *brand spanking new* Central Park edition as an example. This one shows 253,488 observations of 3,505,493 birds from 195 species, all from one year. 🪶📊
Extremely detailed data viz of bird observations in Central Park.
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
I'm very excited to be published (in print !!!) in Nightingale Magazine. Thank you @datavizsociety.bsky.social
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I'm sharing some more projects here... next up: Bright Lit Place. I created the website and interactive maps for this award-winning @npr.org / WLRN podcast collaboration, led by journalist Jenny Staletovich. Check out the maps (and the podcast) at brightlitplace.org.
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noellemon @noellemon.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Also some comic/sequential samples of things I did for local collabs - one for @radiatorcomics.bsky.social's Sun & Sand anthology, and another with Malaya Movement FL: www.instagram.com/p/C953jk2AxC...
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
🏆 Today, the Amazon Underworld project was awarded the 2024 Vladimir Herzog Prize for Amnesty and Human Rights. Amazon Underworld reveals the massive multinational criminal network that snakes through the Amazon rainforest. I'm proud to have made the maps for this project! 💚 🗺️
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Welcome to the Amazon Underworld
The Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, is also a source and transit point for illegally extracted jungle resources and narcotics. As criminal economies expand, violence and deforestation wor...
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