Hello World
How to Use Sound and AI to Protect the Environment
A conversation with Bourhan Yassin
Challenging technology to serve the public good.
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.
Hello World
A conversation with Bourhan Yassin
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