Taylor Johnston

I collaborated with data reporters to conceptualize and build an interactive tracker catching the DOJ's quiet removal of public Epstein documents – giving readers a record of what remained.

I designed and built the scrollytelling experience for a piece on Crooks – turning reporters' dataset of his online activity into a clear visual sequence, including a heatmap and timeline, showing how his browsing escalated in the days before the assassination attempt.

I led the data analysis and built the interactive map for a CBS News investigation – crossreferencing EPA sewage outfall locations with federal environmental justice data to find that lower-income minority communities are twice as likely to have wastewater dumping into a nearby river or creek.

A coworker and I conceived this piece together, and I built the room-by-room experience – a visual tribute to the untouched bedrooms of children killed in school shootings, designed to let the photographs carry the weight without getting in their way.

🏆 Edward R. Murrow Award (Excellence in Innovation) 🏆 Emmy (Outstanding Writing - News) 🏆 NY Press Club (Feature Reporting - National)

🏆 Connecticut SPJ Award (1st Place - Infographic)

🏆 Columbia J-School Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award 🏆 SABEW Best in Business Award 🏆 DC SPJ Dateline Award

I designed and built this 3-part investigative series, establishing a reusable pipeline for future special project pages at CBS News – developed in close collaboration with the reporter.

I built a searchable map and table letting readers look up any dialysis clinic by name, city or ZIP code to see whether it had been financially penalized by Medicare – surfacing each clinic's quality score and how it measured up against the federal standard.

I pitched, reported and built an interactive tool letting readers explore their chances of a white Christmas – pulling temperature and snowfall data into maps that could be explored.

I worked with the CBS News Confirmed team to report and build a timeline of how the LA protests unraveled – using geolocation techniques and satellite imagery to map the key locations where events played out.

I wrote the data pipeline pulling and cleaning monthly BLS consumer price index data, automated the chart updates and built a Slackbot to notify reporters when fresh numbers were ready — then designed the dashboard so readers could explore price changes across hundreds of household categories themselves.

I designed a scrollytelling component tracing a single organ donor's body – an illustrated figure with motion graphics showing where each organ traveled to find a recipient, and where it went unused.

I reported and wrote the digital piece alongside leading the data analysis and visualization – covering a new law restoring full Social Security benefits to millions of teachers, firefighters and public employees locked out of the system for decades.

A personal data project that started with an email to the National Park Service. I wanted to explore my own neighborhood and this is what came out of it.

Sometimes I find myself wanting more nail polish but forgetting what colors I already own. I wanted to learn to use Svelte so I figured this would be a perfect use case for that.

I doodle on my iPad and cut them into stickers with a Silhouette machine. Sold over 600 and counting – nothing serious, just something I enjoy doing in my free time.