Ben Welsh
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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel,
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Los Angeles Times
and
Covers:
energy, data, politics, money in politics, public safety
Ben Welsh’s Biography
I am a reporter, albeit an unconventional one.
I specialize in what is called computer-assisted reporting. Journalists in the past were often hack novelists. I'm a hack computer programmer. I use computers to collect, organize, analyze and present large amounts of information.
I work at the Los Angeles Times, a daily newspaper and 24-hour website based in Southern California.
I am also the editor and publisher of PastPages, an archive dedicated to the preservation of online news.