Justin Mayo is the Senior Data Journalist at Stanford University’s Big Local News, a data-sharing platform and computational collaborative in support of local journalism that partners with the 85+ INN member newsrooms in the Rural News Network. Join a coaching session to learn about their team's approach to data-driven reporting, as well as the resources Big Local News can provide to local newsrooms.
Bring your questions about:
- Data-driven stories and recipes
- Big Local News
- Investigative journalism
- Contextualizing the current administration
- Easy data visualization tools
Wondering if it’s right for you? These sessions are best suited for newsrooms that do investigative and data journalism.
Meet Justin Mayo
Justin Mayo is a senior data journalist with Big Local News at Stanford University, which supports local watchdog reporting through data gathering, analysis and training. In 2024, Big Local partnered with the Rural News Network on stories about staffing shortages at nursing homes. Big Local provided CMS data, built story recipes and organized a webinar to help journalist translate data into meaningful stories for their area. Before Stanford, he spent 20 years as an investigative reporter with The Seattle Times, sharing the 2018 Selden Ring Award, the 2015 Breaking News Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
