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Xaquín G.V.

Girona, Washington, D.C.
Covers:  multimedia storytelling, visual storytelling, data visualization, infographics, information visualization
No longer active here. Co-founder of @fndViT. Ex-@guardian @NatGeo @nytimes. He / him. Find me 🦋 @xocasgv.bsky.social

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I'm the Senior Editor for Interactives at National Geographic where I produce and coordinate data visualizations and multimedia narratives.

I've worked at Newsweek and The New York Times—where I was part of the team that created Snowfall and Jockey among other longform multimedia articles.

Before I moved to New York, I headed the Interactive Graphics Desk at elmundo.es, one of the largest news site in Spanish, and blurred the lines between interactive graphics and multimedia.

I blog over at xoc…

Have you ever used a typewriter?

My grandfather's.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Where was the 'Skip question' button again?

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

My brain, my eyes, my hands, papers and pencils. And then a computer, and 3DS Max, d3.js, Excel, Illustrator ...