Soo Oh

Investigative Editor

Soo Oh is an editor and data journalist. Before The Markup, she was the data editor at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. She has reported stories, analyzed data, coded interactive visuals, and built internal tools at the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Wall Street Journal, Vox.com, the Los Angeles Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2018, she was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where she researched how to better manage and support journalists with technical skills. She currently teaches students how to code as a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism.

Soo uses she/her pronouns.

soo@themarkup.org @soo_oh

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Privacy

Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching

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December 12, 2023 08:00 ET

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Still Loading

What It’s Like Living With Limited Access to Internet in the Black Rural South

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December 6, 2023 07:00 ET