Researcher, Data Journalist  & Content Engineer.

A local review desk where agents prepare work and a person reads, edits, and decides.

An agentic research pipeline for data journalism: reusable queries, entity resolution, and human review, with published investigations as worked examples rather than the main exhibit.

A process model, written with Tamara Munzner, for the below-the-waterline schemas and judgment that shape any data analysis, kept separate from the newsroom papers Charles co-authored as an academic advisor.

A cultural history of cryptography that follows codes and ciphers from specialized instruments into the infrastructure of everyday communication.

The software side of an agentic research desk: reusable skills, entity resolution, and multi-model evaluation that supported data-journalism investigations.

A collaborative photogrammetry project in which the seams and distortions of a 3D image record how a group tried to see together.

A ten-week School for Poetic Computation course about making media as a way to think through memory, ritual, collaboration, and everyday life.

The first published study of how SecureDrop entered newsroom routines and changed the practical conditions of protecting anonymous sources.

Research and writing on type as both cultural form and technical infrastructure, from the history of Impact to web fonts measured across millions of sites.