Mary Hall is a data journalist who has collaborated on projects published at WBEZ, the Chicago Tribune, the Better Government Association and the Chicago Sun-Times. She just received her masters degree from Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism in Social Justice and Investigative Reporting.
Mary was a former section editor and reporter at the Daily Journal in Kankakee, Illinois, where she managed a cross-discipline team, wrote features, produced social video and spearheaded the use of data visualization at the publication. She has won three awards from the Illinois Press Association for infographics.
Recent projects have included an investigation into Chicago’s diminishing environmental oversight, building heat maps in Python that tracks linguistically-isolated households, an interactive package that follows one homeless woman trying to navigate Chicago’s warming centers, and contributing to the Local News Initiative, which uses human-centered design to develop new solutions for local news gaps. For her capstone project, she lead the data team for the Medill Justice Project, which investigates systemic criminal justice issues.
Originally from St. Louis, she lived for six years in Quito, Ecuador, and speaks Spanish. View her work at mhjournalist.com.
