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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · 24d

Belatedly: There's also a shortform video version of this story! www.instagram.com/p/DNynfsr3uIW/

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Aug 27

📊🔊 Data sonification: New Orleans' rising temperatures, conveyed via the tempo of a brass band's music www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Hear New Orleans' rising temperatures in music

Average temperatures have been going up in many cities, including New Orleans. Here's what those higher temperatures sound like.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Aug 26

I just realized that Illustrator and Photoshop's versions of the "Save for Web" panel have the Save/Cancel/Done buttons in the same place but in different order. Maybe that's why I always accidentally cancel out of them so often — I mean to click "Save" but click "Done" by mistake.

Adobe Illustrator: "Save for Web" panel buttons are ordered Done, Cancel and Save. The "Save" button is colored blue.

Adobe Photoshop: The buttons in the "Save for Web" panel are labeled "Save...", "Cancel" and "Done" — the opposite order from Illustrator.

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William B. Davis @willbdavis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Aug 21

I wanted to try an interrupted projection as part of a globe -> orange peel -> mercator/equalearth progression, but ran out of time. github.com/d3/d3-geo-pr...

GitHub - d3/d3-geo-projection: Extended geographic projections for d3-geo.

Extended geographic projections for d3-geo. Contribute to d3/d3-geo-projection development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Aug 21

Got to nerd out a little about world maps. www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...

African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Jun 10

For the Graphics + Web Archivist internship:
* The role is split: 3mo with the Editorial Graphics team in the fall, and then 3mo with the Research, Archives and Data Strategy team in the winter
* Remote-friendly (US-based), and we can be flexible around your school schedule

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Jun 10

College students and recent grads: Come intern at NPR this fall/winter! Apply by June 30.

➡️ Graphics + Web Archivist internship (with my team + our Research, Archives & Data Strategy team): job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

➡️ All internships: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Jun 2

Coming soon: Fall/Winter 2025 internships at @npr.org. Watch this space: www.npr.org/about-npr/18...

Want To Be An NPR Intern?

A learning experience like no other. Find out how you can contribute your diverse talents to gain invaluable experience at the heart of a thriving multimedia organization.

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Hannah Bloch @hannahbloch.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today marks 9 years since NPR colleagues David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed on assignment in Afghanistan. The memorial display at NPR honors their memory. The camera David was carrying when he died is on the left.
We remember them on this day and always.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Jun 2

Coming soon: Fall/Winter 2025 internships at @npr.org. Watch this space: www.npr.org/about-npr/18...

Want To Be An NPR Intern?

A learning experience like no other. Find out how you can contribute your diverse talents to gain invaluable experience at the heart of a thriving multimedia organization.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · May 2

Join my team at NPR! We're hiring for a senior graphics reporter. Remote-friendly (in the US). grnh.se/f78153425us

Senior Graphics Reporter

Remote

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 30

TIMELINES: 100 days of major Trump admin actions re: DOGE, immigration, tariffs, foreign policy, retribution, civil rights and Signalgate, compiled by Domenico Montanaro @npr.org @heidiglenn.bsky.social. SO MUCH has happened in the past 3 months; it's really something to see it listed out.

In first 100 days, Trump tests limits, creates chaos and turns from allies

From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here's a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump's second administration.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 28

Our Gaza investigation has been translated into 2 additional languages:

* Arabic: apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

* Hebrew: apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

* English: apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 11

Working on another story translation project and came across this really useful guide to design/css/code considerations when working with RTL languages: rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-st...

Right to Left Styling 101

An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 10

🌸 Update to this project, just in time for spring: @danielpwwood.bsky.social added support for zip code search and made transition animations sensitive to whether `prefers-reduced-motion` is set.

Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · May 13

My team, working with the Climate Desk, made something that's weird and joyful and useful.

Repo link and blog post(s) to come. In the meantime, enjoy:

The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · Apr 3

Fascinating deep-dive on an 1855 railroad company org chart, unearthed in the Library of Congress archives:

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Making of the New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram

Org charts tend to be a rather boring affair—with their lists of names and who reports to whom—but they didn’t start out that way. One of the first in American business, is a stunning portrait of a cl...

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 8

On a technical note: The flowcharts were produced in Illustrator and converted to HTML using ai2html. Then I used IntersectionObserver to track all the

tags and toggle a CSS class to fade them in as they became visible onscreen. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 8

@ximenabustillo.bsky.social did extensive reporting and research for this, and we worked together to boil this complex process down into a series of flowcharts. Thanks as well to to editor Anna Yukhananov, art director @emilybogle.bsky.social, illustrator Ana Galvañ and copy editor Pam Webster.

NPR @npr.org · Apr 7

NPR spoke to immigration experts and lawyers and reviewed government documents to break down the steps and associated costs of the U.S. deportation process.
By @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and @alykat.bsky.social

How does deportation work, and how much does it cost? We break it down

NPR spoke to immigration experts and lawyers and reviewed government documents to break down the steps and associated costs of the U.S. deportation process.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 2

Also, until this week I didn't realize that flag emojis 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇨🇳 🇪🇺 are unevenly supported on Windows machines. Found a polyfill to make those work. www.npmjs.com/package/coun...

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Apr 2

The back-and-forth volley of tariff threats so far this year:

It's been a wild rollout of Trump's tariffs. Here's how we got here

President Trump's tariff talk has been big — and also unpredictable. He's frequently made threats only to back off or shift deadlines. Here, a look at how the tariff agenda has rolled out.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Mar 24

This visual narrative includes a reconstruction of what happened the night of the strike and in the aftermath, the Israeli military's response, a detailed family tree mapping out the extent of the family's loss, satellite imagery and original drone video from their neighborhood.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Mar 24

New project: An Israeli strike on a Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Israel-Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead via handwritten lists, which they shared with NPR. apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

One family. One attack. 132 names. A Gaza investigation.

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war with Hamas, Gaza health officials say. We reconstructed what happened in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the war.

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Alyson Hurt @alykat.bsky.social · Mar 18

This illustrated/animated NYT essay about agoraphobia and the grocery store is so beautifully done. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An Agoraphobe Goes to the Grocery Store

It had been more than 365 days since I went to the supermarket. So I steeled myself and ventured out.

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NPR @npr.org · Mar 5

As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact-check and offer context as the speech unfolds.

Follow NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress

As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check and offer context as the speech unfolds.

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NPR @npr.org · Mar 4

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at 74

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

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