Data and visual reporting
Youyou is a visual journalist at the Opinions desk of The Washington Post. She writes an occasional column on topics including immigration, AI, and shifting identities. Before that, she was a senior data editor at Vox, a Things reporter at Quartz, and an interactive news developer at The Associated Press. She has reported from Africa, Central Asia, and Europe. Her bylines also appeared on The New York Times, Rest of World, Scientific American. A Pulitzer Center grantee and McGraw Fellow for Business Reporting, she has been recognized by the Data Journalism Awards, Philip Meyer Awards, Sigma Awards, Society of News Design, and Information is Beautiful Awards, among others.
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The American Oscars
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