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Tiff Fehr

(She/Her)
New Jersey
As seen in: The New York Times
Covers:  Data journalism, data science, explanatory journalism, data visualization.
Doesn't Cover: Beat reporting

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Tiff Fehr’s Biography

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Tiff is a data journalist and newsroom software engineer. She is an alum of CUNY’s j-school news innovation program, The New York Times, the joint-venture era of msnbc.com and a few mediocre startups. Now freelancing, she brings 20+ years of experience in full-stack engineering, project management and award-winning data journalism to projects big or small but always newsy and nerdy.

Tiff Fehr’s Journalist Portfolio

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How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear

How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear

A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using…

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Times Insider: Finding Order in a Thicket of Nonprofit Data

Times Insider: Finding Order in a Thicket of Nonprofit Data

To investigate the practices of a group of political nonprofits, we first needed to conquer a pesky foil of d…

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Maps: Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Wildfires in Canada and the U.S.

Maps: Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Wildfires in Canada and the U.S.

See maps of where smoke is traveling and how harmful the air has become.

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How Scalpers Make Their Millions With ‘Hamilton’

How Scalpers Make Their Millions With ‘Hamilton’

The departure of Lin-Manuel Miranda could mean lower demand for “Hamilton” tickets — and lower profits for ti…

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The Upshot: To Learn About ‘Hamilton’ Ticket Bots, We Wrote Our Own Bot

The Upshot: To Learn About ‘Hamilton’ Ticket Bots, We Wrote Our Own Bot

We wanted to learn how bots worked in order to track the resale ticket prices for the Broadway hit musical.

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Times Insider: I Tracked and Tried to Outsmart ‘Hamilton’ Scalpers — With 341 Lines of Code

Times Insider: I Tracked and Tried to Outsmart ‘Hamilton’ Scalpers — With 341 Lines of Code

Tiff Fehr, an assistant interactive editor, describes how she estimated the profits made by those reselling t…

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Learned to type on them.

What's your favorite social network?

None of them

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Larger organizations want specialists, not generalists. Early on it's good to know how to do many things but then plan core competencies.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize

2021 - public service

Key part of the staff award to The New York Times for our coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic and its public, open-source data offering.

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Investigative Reporters and Editors Award

2020 - Philip Meyer Award

Key part of the staff award to The New York Times for our coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic and its public, open-source data offering.

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