Turkey Online Master Class: Spatial Investigations with The New York Times Graphics Team (July 12, 2023)

The New York Times graphics department is at the forefront of a new genre — spatial investigations — which combine traditional digging, meticulous spatial reporting and highly technical 3D innovation. In this fifth master class organized within the scope of IPI’s Turkey Digital News Accelerator, we host three members of this team — Anjali Singhvi, Mika Gröndahl and Haeyoun Park — to discuss how they pushed the boundaries of investigative reporting and innovative storytelling techniques with visual stories on the 2023 Turkey earthquakes.

Hosted by Istanbul-based journalist Gülsin Harman.

English to Turkish translation will be provided.

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Who can attend

This series of master classes is open to all media professionals in Turkey, including journalists, editors, media managers, business and product managers, community managers, as well as freelance reporters and journalism students.

This is also a chance to network, exchange ideas, tips, and best practices – to share what’s worked for you and learn from others.

Meet the speakers

Haeyoun Park is a deputy editor in the graphics department at The New York Times, where she has led graphics exploration and visual storytelling on a wide range of award-winning projects, including spatial investigations. She first joined the department as a graphics editor in 2006, and for a decade, she led the desk’s reporting on national issues. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Anjali Singhvi is a reporter and graphics editor for The New York Times. She covers a variety of topics and specializes in investigative visual journalism where she combines traditional reporting with advanced spatial techniques. Some of the stories she’s covered include an investigation into the Surfside condo collapse, a 3D reconstruction of the Tulsa race massacre and an investigation into the killing of Breonna Taylor. Ms. Singhvi is a trained architect and holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning and Urban Analytics from Columbia University in New York.

Mika Gröndahl is a graphics editor for The New York Times. He is a trained architect and passionate about building things. He uses 3D modeling and animation to synthesize often fragmented information, to help visualize and explain a variety of topics. Mika has been with the Times since 1997.

Facilitator and host: Gülsin Harman, IPI Turkey, Journalist

Gülsin Harman is an Istanbul-based journalist who frequently contributes to the New York Times and BBC Monitoring. After the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2020, she received a grant from the European Journalism Center to develop a newsletter. She was selected to join the Product Immersion Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and invited to the News Product Alliance Product Expansion Program.

As a researcher, she looked into the online harassment of journalists in Turkey for the International Press Institute in 2016. The detailed investigation resulted in a public database and case profiles featured in a report published by the Institute for the Future. In 2020, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (BKC) at Harvard University selected her to be a participant in the Assembly Fellowship program which brings members of the cohort of technologists and public policy leads to develop interventions in the areas of disinformation.

More to come!

This special master class is part of “Turkey Digital News Accelerator 2023”, a series of expert online and hybrid workshops on digital transition and innovations for journalists in Turkey.

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