Michelle Minkoff Carlson

Data Journalist @AP in Culpeper, VA. Project managing election & other interactives. Kidney transplant recp. Dec. 2016 thx to fellow news nerd @tiffehr. She/Her

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

For decades, one of my greatest fears was stepping wrong on a sidewalk crack.

Yesterday I fell on a glacier and barely noticed.

I wrote about evidence, chronic illness, and why updating our assumptions about ourselves can be harder than updating data.

https://t.co/Vr9viDo7Oy

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Hey! Our @AP team continues to grow! W/ these openings, we're looking for folks who want to use coding skills for storytelling re: elections and democracy. We have three data viz openings (https://t.co/z123PHalJU) and one designer opening (https://t.co/9MBX1rdA96). Send your qs!

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

In Nashville and excited to see folks at #nicar23!

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Wrote a post about food and lifestyle changes to preserve my kidney transplant for @KidneyFund, as part of my new work this year as an ambassador for @IGANFoundation https://t.co/OiIA0arf7z

[Justin Myers @myersjustinc]

The @AP data team has two job openings! Both can be based in any U.S. city with an AP bureau.

The first is for a data viz developer who would focus on elections, reporting to @newsroomdev. Applications close _this Sunday night_, Nov. 27.
https://t.co/hcFXuvLlug

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[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

True joy embarking on my first proj management foray on small project of @AP elex viz.🤣Not possible w/out colleagues, thx @ttibo for the opp, @newsroomdev for leading, & jumping in w/ about 2 months to e-day! Nothing like democracy in action! Us on CSPAN: https://t.co/J7vKbMFyEF

[AP CorpComm @AP_CorpComm]

How @AP will declare winners in tonight's US midterm elections: https://t.co/0p0lCNEYYz

[The Associated Press @AP]

The Associated Press has been counting votes and declaring winners in presidential elections since 1848. Its coverage grew with advancements in technology, from transmitting results on telegraphs to the wider adoption of mail-in ballots.

A history of @AP's role in elections.

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

@DanielleAlberti At my wedding, I had one MOH and three bridesmaids. MOH was Sara, one bridesmaid Sarah!

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Wanna come work with me and an awesome team of kind and smart colleagues, with an emphasis on the joy of learning and nerding out? Please apply!

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Excited for @newsroomdev's first day today! Beginning of yet another AP era!

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Congratulations, welcome, so excited to be working with you!

[🗽 Aimee Rinehart 🗽 @aimeetwoee]

For local US newsrooms, @AP is offering a free, online course that will teach on newsroom innovations with #AI and automation. Sign up here: https://t.co/9n1FDgkltU

[Justin Myers @myersjustinc]

Happy new year! The @AP data team is hiring two more data journalists to focus on specific beats.

AP’s preparing for grant-funded expansions of its coverage of education and climate, and we believe data is critical to help provide context and clarity for those stories.

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[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Congrats to my long-time editor @tthibo, whose technical skill, leadership, thoughtfulness and humanism has continued to make @ap the intellectual home I dreamed of as a young journo day in and out (it'll be exactly 10 years on Sunday! So excited to continue the mission!

[AP CorpComm @AP_CorpComm]

.@AP Data Team Editor Troy Thibodeaux (@tthibo) named director of digital news. See our blog: https://t.co/Unh0uv6iLe

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Just cited @harrisj's @niemanfdn piece from 2011 on word clouds being harmful to my fiance working on a project. Can't have that in our house! And gosh, I've been doing this whole nerd thing a long time!

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Wedding planning is consuming all my non-work time, and it's loads of fun. How's it going? Well, there's a Trello board with a column for every month for the next year....

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

@Erie Will be by mid-May!!!!

[Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff]

Quirky celebration of the week between work and planning, swipe to see how it looked before! And we have a hashtag! #minkOffToBeACarlson https://t.co/yGMhaABUc2