Hi, I’m Denise Lu, a senior graphics reporter at Bloomberg News. Previously, I have worked at The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Find me @DeniseDSLu / bsky / mail / etc.
Some stuff I’ve worked on:
Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming It.
The New York Times Magazine, 2023
Rising Temperatures Are Wreaking Havoc Year-Round
Bloomberg, 2023
The Next EV Push Is an Overhaul of the American School Bus
Bloomberg, 2023
Hey, New Yorkers: Meet Your Neighborhood’s New Congressional District
The New York Times, 2022
Manhattan’s Chinese Street Signs Are Disappearing
The New York Times, 2022
Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power?
The New York Times, 2022
The Hidden Melodies of Subways Around the World
The New York Times, 2021
How Covid Upended a Century of Patterns in U.S. Deaths
The New York Times, 2021
How Did Trump Do in Counties That Backed Him in 2016?
The New York Times, 2020
We Checked the Iowa Caucus Math. Here’s Where It Didn’t Add Up.
The New York Times, 2020
There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them.
The New York Times, 2020
The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions in America
The New York Times, 2019
Defying U.S. Sanctions, China and Others Take Oil From 12 Iranian Tankers
The New York Times, 2019
Court Backlog May Prove Bigger Barrier for Migrants Than Any Wall
The New York Times, 2019
The Border Wall: What Has Trump Built So Far?
The New York Times, 2019
The Faces of Change in the Midterm Elections
The New York Times, 2018
Travel the path of the solar eclipse
The Washington Post, 2017
Every eclipse in your lifetime
The Washington Post, 2017
The path to Super Bowl LI in sound
The Washington Post, 2017
The Washington Post, 2016
Legendary? Lousy? How your team has fared in the NFL draft
The Washington Post, 2016
What Paris looks like with an echo
The Washington Post, 2014
Some mostly functional projects for fun:
Visualizing three decades of Pavement setlist data. 2023.
“Channel-flipping” through song snippets on a fake HTML TV. 2022.
My work has been recognized with top accolades from Malofiej and the Society for News Design. In 2023, a package I contributed to won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. In 2020, a package I contributed to was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in public service. In 2018, I received the Solar Physics Division Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society.
My Wikipedia mentions include citations of a project I did in 2014 on the page for Databending and a namecheck on the page for Chinese people in New York City for some reason.
Do you have an original pressing of Slay Tracks you want to sell me? Do you know the answer to this question about subway chimes? Do you know a place in New York that stocks Danbo cheese or Osulloc tea? Get in touch.