Jason Kao is a graphics editor at ProPublica who uses data and visualization to tell stories. He was a member of the 2022-23 New York Times fellowship working in the graphics department. Before that, he interned at Bloomberg News, The New York Times and The Texas Tribune.
Jason Kao
Graphics Editor
The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry’s Slow Death
Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.
A Memorial for the Children Lost to Stillbirth
Each day in the U.S., about 60 babies are stillborn. Here, families share their child’s name and their lasting legacy.
Body Cameras Were Sold as a Tool of Police Reform. Ten Years Later, Most of the Footage Is Kept From Public View.
There were 101 people killed at the hands of police in June 2022. More than a year later, police had released body-camera footage of only 33 of those killings, ProPublica has found.
When the Coast Guard Intercepts Unaccompanied Kids
A Haitian boy arrived on Florida’s maritime border. His next five days detained at sea illuminate the crisis facing children traveling to the U.S. alone and the crews forced to send them back.
The Scandal That Never Happened
The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.
