About me.
👋🏼 I am currently a technologist and developer at Agence France-Presse in Paris, France. I build internal tools focused on cartography and AI.
Before that, I was at the Washington Post on the LEDE Lab. I focus on experimenting with innovative approaches to storytelling and integrating emerging technology in the newsroom.
🦠 I joined the Post after spending time as a data journalist reporting on COVID-19 for CalMatters.
🗺 From 2018 to 2020, I was at Mapbox in San Francisco, CA. I built tools, visualizations, guides, and I supported journalists in building better maps and vizs. I spent two years at WIRED in SF as a front-end/newsroom developer. Before that, I was a co-lead of the Interactive Lab at Youth Radio. I’ve worked with NPR, KALW, KQED and more.
📱 If you want to contact me: email me at lobenichou at pm dot me; Twitter: @lobenichou; Signal: hit me up for digits!
👍🏾👍🏿 If you're looking to sign up for the Journalist of Color Slack, head right this way. The admins, which I am a part of, won the ONA Community Award in 2019 so you know we're doing something right. 👍🏻👍🏼
DATA JOURNALIST. WEB DEVELOPER. TECHNOLOGIST.
Stuff I won.
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Society of News Design 2021, Award of Excellence, Design: Environment & Science
“Fighting fire with fire,” The Washington Post
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Society of News design 2021, Silver, Experimental Design + Award of Excellence, Design: features 2021
“The Tenement,” The Washington Post
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Society of Professional Journalist Norcal, 2020, Excellence in journalism award, explanatory journalism
“Close quarters,” CalMatters
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SIGMA AWARDs 2020, Finalist, worlds best data journalism
“Close quarters,” CalMatters
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REGIONAL + National 2020 Edward r. Murrow awards for investigative reporting
“Older and Overlooked,” KQED
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ONA 2019 COMMUNITY AWARD
The Journalists of Color Slack Administrator
Coolest stuff I built.
The Washington Post
AI Election Presenter
From November 3-13, 2020, The Post enlisted the help of a customized AI voice named Claire to voice the latest local state election results through a smart house ad at the top of our three political podcasts, Post Reports, Can He Do That? and The Daily 202. Over 20,000 election audio updates, refreshed with the latest data every 30 minutes by our elections engineering infrastructure, were served through our podcasts over 10 days, to reach 1.2 million listeners.
More cool stuff.
WIRED
Frontend | JS-HTML-CSS
[DEPRECATED] WIRED's photo landing page uses complex calculation to create a one-of-a-kind parallax effect. The page was a 2017 Webby Award Nominee.
Stuff I wrote.
“BuzzFeed x Mapbox: Mapping gentrification using the Static Images API” | Mapbox Blog | Mar 5, 2020.
“Mapping the US elections: the 2020 edition guide to feature state” | Mapbox Blog | Feb 25, 2020.
“Mapping the US elections: Guide to Albers USA projection in Studio” | Mapbox Blog | Feb 24, 2020.
“How to Build a Scrollytelling Map” | Mapbox Blog | Nov 15, 2019.
“Clustering Properties with Mapbox and HTML markers” | Mapbox Blog | Apr 25, 2019.
“Warner Music France’s Ninho fan experience” | Mapbox Blog | Apr 10, 2019.
“Visualizing 122 Years of Wildfire Activity” | Mapbox Blog | Jan 28, 2019.
“Location is Personal: Issue 1, January 2019” | Mapbox Blog | Jan 22, 2019.
“Designing Electoral Maps: Exploring Mapbox GL JS” | Mapbox Blog | Oct 1, 2018.
“Live Electoral Maps: A Guide to Feature State” | Mapbox Blog | Sept 19, 2018.
“Visualizing Election Data: a Guide to Expressions” | Mapbox Blog | Sept 10, 2018.
“Washington Post 1968 D.C. riots” | Mapbox Blog | May 18, 2018.
“Mapping Donor Network West’s Mission to Heal” | Mapbox Blog | Apr 16, 2018.
“Turn Static Images Into Interactive Maps” | Mapbox Blog | Dec 15, 2017.
“New York Times live-mapping Virginia election” | Mapbox Blog | Nov 7, 2017.
“How to Protect Your Digital Self” | WIRED | July, 06, 2017.
“How We Made Youth Radio’s West Side Stories” | Source | November 13, 2015.
“How We Made “Double Charged: Behind The Numbers”” | Youth Radio | July 28, 2014.
“Jack London: A Food Desert? | Bay Area Bites” | KQED | July 17, 2013.