Ben Welsh

@palewire

🧮 Data journalist · 🟠 @Reuters editor · 🤖 Computer programmer · 🦣 mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire · 🗣️ Send tips to ben.welsh@thomsonreuters.com

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Ben Welsh @palewire Jun 10

🌡️ Today, I'm happy to launch the "Reuters Climate Monitor," a live data dashboard that aims to track the slow-moving impact of climate change at the speed of the news. You can find it at reuters.com/graphics/CLIMA…

Ben Welsh @palewire 17h

Applications are now open for the Reuters News Applications Internship, which will welcome a student journalist to the Reuters newsroom at 3 Times Square in the summer of 2027.

Ben Welsh @palewire 3d

🔬 Last night on East 21st Street, ten students gathered around a table for the final edition of "Truth-Telling 101," the introduction to data journalism I taught this fall at the School of Visual Arts.

Ben Welsh @palewire Nov 5

Whenever news breaks, our menu of automated charts is ready to serve. Just slap one on the page and dial it up.

It won't win any awards, but today's play is an example of why we wire up our data journalism here at Reuters.

Reuters Verified account @Reuters Nov 5

The Nasdaq Composite ended sharply lower, notching its deepest one-day drop in 19 months and confirming it was in a correction, as chipmakers sank on ‌fears of tougher AI regulation after Democrats won control of the US Congress reut.rs/4jU5wUx

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Ben Welsh @palewire Nov 4

The home-brewed system we use to publish hundreds of Reuters charts and feeds each day now has a desktop app. We use it to monitor the latest jobs, flag errors and document how it all works.