Portrait of Karen Yourish

Karen Yourish

Over 20 years of work in data journalism, I have developed a rigorous system for turning information — embedded in documents, media, speech and more — into data. Some big data sets exist only after you build them, fact by fact, over time. I comb through primary source material, conduct conventional interviews and turn unstructured reporting into structured data sets. With this data, I tell stories that would otherwise be impossible to see. I watched all 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and turned the program into a data set that documented the show’s racist language and demonstrated that Carlson was normalizing white nationalism night after night. I was a part of the team that tracked the Covid pandemic, case by case. I read all of then-President Trump’s tweets — twice — and categorized them for a story about how Twitter shaped his presidency.

I joined The Times in 2013 after nearly a decade at The Washington Post. At The Times, I was part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism award for coverage of the Covid pandemic. I also won an Emmy and a Mirror Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting for coverage of Tucker Carlson.

As a Times journalist, I am committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook.

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    Who Sat in Trump’s V.I.P. Box at the Convention?

    The most prominent seats at the 2024 R.N.C. were three rows of white chairs in Donald J. Trump’s V.I.P. box. Here’s a look at who sat there.

    By Ashley Wu, Marco Hernandez, Alicia Parlapiano, June Kim, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Helmuth Rosales, Karen Yourish and Jon Huang

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    A Visual Timeline of the Trump Rally Shooting

    Shots rang out as former President Donald J. Trump spoke at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. Maps, photos and video show how the shooting unfolded.

    By Leanne Abraham, June Kim, Elena Shao, Julie Walton Shaver, Anjali Singhvi, Christiaan Triebert, Karen Yourish, Lazaro Gamio and Amy Schoenfeld Walker

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    At Mar-a-Lago, Extremism Is Good for Business

    President Donald J. Trump’s residence and private club has become an oasis for the MAGA wing of the Republican party, according to a Times analysis — and its transformation has been tremendously profitable for Mr. Trump.

    By Karen Yourish, Charlie Smart and David A. Fahrenthold

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    The Trump Manhattan Criminal Verdict, Count By Count

    Former President Donald J. Trump faced 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, related to the reimbursement of hush money paid to the porn star Stormy Daniels in order to cover up a sex scandal around the 2016 presidential election.

    By Lazaro Gamio, Karen Yourish, Matthew Haag, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and K.K. Rebecca Lai

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