@ryanleewatts

🔜 Director of Visual Storytelling at the @WSJ

Joined February 2009
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Some personal news: I am moving to New York next month to join the @WSJ as Director of Visual Storytelling. Can't wait to get started and help a talented newsroom tell stories in compelling and innovative ways 🍎
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The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom on.wsj.com/3WwBOHK on.wsj.com/3WwBOHK

Inside the Secret Negotiations to Free Evan Gershkovich

The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his...

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I left @thetimes earlier this month, after *exactly* six years (and two days...). Very sad to leave such a wonderful team of experts and some great pals. I have learned so much from all of you and I shall be watching and cheering from the sidelines
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Excited to work with the brilliant @TanethAutumn again and I'm looking forward to meeting my new colleagues. Should be a nice, quiet year for news in which to get started... My DMs are open, say hi 👋
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📊 New Unwrapped speaker! @matildakdavies, data journalist at The Times, will share how her team created a Datawrapper workflow that upskills the whole newsroom. See some of the amazing visualizations The Times created & learn more about Matilda here: blog.datawrapper.de/the-time…
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Step 1️⃣ Take our fun quiz to predict what will happen in 2024. Step 2️⃣ Give us your email address. Step 3️⃣ ???? Step 4️⃣ This time next year we show you how much you got right, and how your score compares to other @thetimes readers thetimes.co.uk/article/71492…
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🏠 Will property values go down in my area? Click below to use our new postcode tool to find out how house prices have changed in your neighbourhood — and what the future may hold ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-pr…

UK house price tracker: will property values go up or down in your area?

Use our postcode calculator for England and Wales to find out how average house prices have changed in your neighbourhood — and what the future may hold

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NEW: The city with 13 bin collections 🗑️♻️ Rishi Sunak pledged to "scrap" having 7 kerbside bins back in September. But what is the right number of bins? And how can we fix the UK's stagnant recycling rate? For today's @thetimes, I dived into Britain's bins 🧵👇 (1/)
Rishi Sunak delivering his Net Zero speech in September, standing at a plinth that reads: "Long-term decisions for a brighter future"

ALT Rishi Sunak delivering his Net Zero speech in September, standing at a plinth that reads: "Long-term decisions for a brighter future"

Conservative messaging on Net Zero. It says: "We're stopping heavy-handed measures: Taxes on eating meat; new taxes to discourage flying; sorting your rubbish into seven different bins; compulsory car sharing; expensive insulation upgrades. A new approach to reach Net Zero."

ALT Conservative messaging on Net Zero. It says: "We're stopping heavy-handed measures: Taxes on eating meat; new taxes to discourage flying; sorting your rubbish into seven different bins; compulsory car sharing; expensive insulation upgrades. A new approach to reach Net Zero."

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🚨 DATA JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 We're hiring a Senior Data Journalist at The Times & The Sunday Times This time we're open to a range of skills and experience, from scoop-getters to developers. Here's a short thread of the kind of projects you might work on 🧵 #ddj #dataviz
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This month, we are wrangling geospatial data and making maps with GeoPandas 🐼🗺️
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The faces of the hostage crisis 👇 100s of people remain missing from Israel following the Oct 7 Hamas attacks We’ve verified the names of 207 people and put their stories together for @thetimes w/ @RachelLavin and @narottammedhora 🧵 thetimes.co.uk/article/eff2f…
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New: An in-depth look at electoral maths of Starmer’s Gaza ceasefire headache - with the charts that show he can (probably) afford to lose Muslim voters. Insiders fear voter desertion seen in after Iraq in 2005 but all bar a handful of MPs are safe 👇🏼👇🏼 thetimes.co.uk/article/0198a…
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How 10% of urban spaces in the Gaza strip (an area the size of Salisbury) has been flattened over 18 days of conflict — and why hospitals became overloaded. Our full analysis for @thetimes, with the dream team @venetiamenzies & @ryanleewatts ✨ thetimes.co.uk/article/gaza-…
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As an invasion of Gaza looms, fleeing civilians are being bombed on the road south 🔍We’ve verified over 50 sites bombed by Israel in this densely populated enclave - under blockade for 16 yrs and home to 2.3m ✍️ w/ @annalom87 for @thetimes thetimes.co.uk/article/what-…
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How Israel’s Supernova music festival turned into a massacre... From @thetimes data and graphics team w/ @yennahsmart @ryanleewatts @Cappaert1410 thetimes.co.uk/article/how-i…

How Israel’s Supernova music festival turned into a massacre

As young people raved into the early morning, they didn’t notice the paragliders descending on the small patch of desert designated for the Supernova electroni

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Analysis by The Times exposes the scale of crimes committed by serving policemen and women, from rape and violence to corruption and fraud

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Rishi Sunak has announced a phased ban that would mean no one under the age of 14 today would ever be allowed to buy cigarettes If this is introduced, in 2101 only people aged 92 or older will be able to buy cigarettes, which will be 4.6% of the UK's population
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Analysis of visa fees and processing costs reveal that the Home Office is making nearly £3k in profit for some applications 💰 Visa fees will rise by between 15 - 20% from Oct 4 📈 with @matt_dathan for @thetimes 👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/minis…
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The Times surveyed almost 1,200 Church of England priests This is how we did it, guided by the advice and methodology of academics and polling experts With a run-down of the findings: thetimes.co.uk/article/how-t…

How The Times surveyed Church of England priests

The Times set out to survey Church of England priests in active ministry to ask for their views on a broad range of issues within the church, in politics and in wider society.No attempt had been made...

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EXCLUSIVE: The Times has surveyed 1,200 Church of England priests Hears views of front-line clergy in unprecedented detail - Majority back same-sex marriage + want church to accept premarital and gay sex for first time Plus four other major findings: thetimes.co.uk/article/churc…
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