I have work experience in the United States and internationally at The New York Times, Le Monde, and ABC News. My efforts to expand my technical skills led me Stanford University and my current position at a Stanford research center dedicated to studying the North American West, in a role that straddles journalism, research, and teaching.

I am also available for consulting, presentation, and training opportunities. I invite you to contact me at the email and phone number listed below.

    ABC News

    • I started my career at ABCNews.com in 1999 as an infographics journalist, where I worked on breaking news stories, investigative features, and explanatory stories; I helped launch ABCNews4Kids, a comics-based news site hosted on Disney.com that was geared towards 8-12 years old “tweens.”

    The New York Times

    • In 2000, I became the first online Graphics Editor for The New York Times. I was tasked with interpreting the paper’s renowned print infographics work for a digital, interactive medium;
    • Over time, I worked on major breaking news stories from the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections to the September 11 attacks, the Afghan and Iraq wars, the Indian ocean tsunami and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster;
    • As Enterprise Editor, I was responsible for establishing and running the Times’s multimedia desk, creating original projects, and planning major investigations and feature stories with the newspaper’s desk heads;
    • As Chief Multimedia Producer, I did original audio and photo-based field reporting, and created templates and a content management system, Configurator, for members of the whole web newsroom to create multimedia stories;
    • I also spent 18 months as a Video Journalist with Times Video, where I used professional cameras and audio gear to shoot, write, and edit stories for the New York Times website and broadcast partners;

    Le Monde

    Stanford University

    John S. Knight Journalism Fellow

    • In 2009, I began a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University to deepen my skills in data visualization, statistical analysis, and geographic information systems; during my time at Stanford, I produced the widely-cited documentary “Journalism in the Age of Data,” about the growing role that data journalism and visualization were playing in reporting and news presentation;

    Bill Lane Center for the American West

    Other Work

Email

geoffmcghee [at] gmail.com

Phone

+1 (415) 326-4929‬