Gabriel Hongsdusit

Visual Designer

Gabriel Hongsdusit is the visual designer at The Markup. Previously, he was the design and visuals editor at Reveal, where he was responsible for the overall design and visual direction of the newsroom, which included illustrations, editorial design, product design, photo editing, and data graphics. Before that, he was the design apprentice for the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Gabe graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and Mandarin Chinese. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

gabriel@themarkup.org @ghongsdusit

Watercolor illustration of a snaking line of students wearing graduation caps. Ten of the students are pink and there’s a bracket above them with the text “Less than 78.5% predicted chance of graduating.”

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Dropout Risk System Under Scrutiny After The Markup Report

The Center for Democracy & Technology makes a case for civil rights protections

September 23, 2023 08:00 ET

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FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive Online Tracking

Sharing private information could lead to penalties, agency says after Markup investigation

September 19, 2023 13:13 ET

Illustration of two panels. On the left panel is a manga-inspired drawing of Gabriel Hongsdusit, an Asian man with short black hair and glasses. He says, “Hi!” The speech bubble is coming out of the frame. The right panel has the typed out alt text of that illustration, which starts at “A manga-inspired drawing…”

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How We Approach Visual Storytelling Accessibility at The Markup

A Q&A with The Markup’s visual designer Gabriel Hongsdusit

September 16, 2023 08:00 ET

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Twitter Is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself

Loading links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack takes far longer than to other sites. We built a tool so you can check any domain you like

September 15, 2023 10:16 ET

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Zine: How We Illustrate Tech (and AI) at The Markup

A lot of what we cover is tough to visualize. We've developed a number of tricks to help—and a comic to tell you all about them

September 14, 2023 08:00 ET

Plain Text Zine: How We Illustrate Tech (and AI) at The Markup

A lot of what we cover is tough to visualize. We've developed a number of tricks to help—and a comic to tell you all about them.

September 14, 2023 08:00 ET

Closeup photograph of a black Axon body camera worn by a police officer. The badge next to it says “LOS ANGELES POLICE.”

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Private Companies Like Axon Expand Their Reach With Public Dollars. We Want to Look Into That

Ese Olumhense, a new reporter at The Markup, outlines her vision for investigating the ways governments acquire and use emerging technology

September 9, 2023 08:00 ET

Photo collage illustration of an Axon drone with several pages of its patent report overlaid on top of it.

Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker

The CEO's vision for Taser-equipped drones includes a fictitious scenario in which the technology averts a shooting at a daycare center

September 8, 2023 13:44 ET

Una mujer, de pie frente a dos hombres, mostrados desde atrás, con uniformes verdes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos; un agente usa un teléfono inteligente para escanear su rostro.

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Ayúdenos a investigar inmigración, justicia penal y responsabilidad gubernamental

Conozca a nuestra periodista de investigación, Monique

September 7, 2023 10:00 ET

A woman with dark skin stands before two men, shown from behind, in green US Border Patrol uniforms; one officer uses a smartphone to scan her face.

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Help Us Investigate Immigration, Criminal Justice, and Government Accountability

Meet our new investigative reporter, Monique

September 2, 2023 08:00 ET

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