The Election Analytics team is expanding with two hires as we come closer to the U.S. general election. Jonah Smith and Christine Zhang will join the team as graphics/multimedia editors.
Jonah is joining as graphics/multimedia editor, data and tooling, supporting the team in building pipelines and tooling to streamline data access for projects like the Needle and The New York Times/Siena College Poll and analysis for other election coverage.
Most recently, he was a staff engineer in Product Engineering at The Times, helping to guide development of new reader-facing features and formats as the tech lead spanning the Storytelling group. Over the last five years, he has been central to the development of new editorial tools and reader experiences across the site, notably storylines, multimedia and live coverage. His wide-ranging background also includes statistics and machine learning.
Christine started on the team earlier this year as graphics/multimedia editor, data insights and polls.
Christine joined The Times in 2022 as part of the inaugural class of newsroom editing residents. Over her two years in the program, she worked in the Graphics department to edit and report visual stories on topics such as bank failures, the stock market, Barbenheimer box office sales and U.F.O.s. She also played an integral role in our coverage of the 2022 midterm elections, including the Needle and visual stories about purple precincts in Georgia and vote shifts in New York City’s majority-Asian neighborhoods.
Before The Times, she helped lead data reporting on the 2020 election at The Financial Times. She was previously a data journalist at The Baltimore Sun and The Los Angeles Times, and a research analyst at the Brookings Institution.
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