Photo Editing
Police Say He Killed in Self-Defense. His Phone Tells Another Story.
Two drivers crossed paths on Highway 9, headed for trouble. One ended up dead, the other walked free, but there was much more to know.
Reporting by Valerie Bauerlein
Photographs by Madeline Gray and Angela Owens for The Wall Street Journal
Design by Andrew Levinson
Role: Data reporting, audio edit, video edit, commission, archive research, selects, build.
Chasing the Vote: The Battlegrounds: A Short-Run Podcast Series
Reporting by Jimmy Vielkind
Audio Production by Jessica Jupiter and Ariana Aspuru
Photographs by Cornell Watson, Caleb Alvarado and Heather Khalifa for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, audio edit, build.
Trump Takes Office Determined to Bend Government to His Singular Will
Reporting by Molly Ball
Photographs by Bing Guan, Christopher Lee, Sophie Park and Shuran Huang for The Wall Street Journal
Pool photographs by Melina Mara and Chip Somodevilla
Role: Commission, on-site contact, selects, build.
Washington Remembers Jimmy Carter, Symbol of a Gentler Era, as Trump’s Presidency Looms
Reporting by Aaron Zitner, Xavier Martinez and Cam McWhirter
Photographs by Moriah Ratner and Micah Green for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
Biden Exits Battling for His Legacy and Believing He Could Have Won
Reporting by Erich Schwartzel, Emily Glazer, and Annie Linskey
Role: Research, selects, build.
The Small Town Tearing Itself Apart Over Preferred Pronouns
Reporting by Kris Maher
Photographs by Michelle Gustafson for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
Inside a High-Stakes U.S.-China Prisoner Swap
Reporting by Aruna Viswanatha, James Areddy, Brian Spegele and Gordon Lubold
Photographs by Ting Shen for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
When Grandma Is a TikTok Star and the Grandkids Are the Managers
Reporting by Joseph Pisani
Photographs by Michelle Gustafson and Yehyun Kim for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
As Western Drought Recedes, the Great Salt Lake Is the Biggest It’s Been in Years
Reporting by Jim Carlton
Photographs by Kim Raff for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
The Democrats Who Are Fighting—and Winning—Against Trump in Court
Reporting by Eliza Collins and John McCormick
Photographs by Ellen Schmidt and Rebecca Noble for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
For Some Gen Xers, Skateboarding Is for Life
Reporting by Suryatapa Bhattacharya
Photographs by Maggie Shannon for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
California’s Wet Winter Could Lead to First Superbloom in Years
Reporting by Alyssa Lukpat
Photographs by Allison Zaucha for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
More Businesses Want to Hire People With Criminal Records Amid Tight Job Market
Reporting by Allison Prang
Photographs by Marlena Sloss for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
Sriracha Shortage Pushes Fans to Get Creative—and Stingy
Reporting by Talal Ansari, Joseph Pisani and Sumathi Reddy
Photographs by Marissa Leshnov for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
A Texas County Fights To Keep Libraries Open Amid Battle Over Books
Reporting by Jennifer Calfas
Photographs by Jordan Vonderhaar for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
Your New Task With a Co-Worker: Write a Song to ‘Make Consulting Suck Less’
Reporting by Lauren Weber
Photographs and Video by William DeShazer for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, audio edit, selects, build.
Nebraska’s Legislative Session Is Tangled Up in Transgender Rights Fight
Reporting by Jennifer Calfas
Photographs by Rebecca S. Gratz for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
Who’s the ‘Queen of Christmas’? Singer Tries to Block Mariah Carey’s Trademark Application
Reporting by Joseph Pisani
Photographs by Mary Kang for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
Food Banks Are Serving More People Again as Inflation Squeezes Budgets
Reporting by Talal Ansari
Photographs by Sylvia Jarrus for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
$1,500 Bedazzled Jacket, $350 Dress: Fans Shell Out to Look Like Taylor Swift
Reporting by Joseph Pisani
Photographs by Bethany Mollenkof and Nicole Buchanan for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, research, selects, build.
Chipotle Peppered With Complaints Over Salsa Spiciness
Reporting by Andrew Restuccia and Heather Haddon
Photographs by F. Martin Ramin/The Wall Street Journal
Food Styling by Mieko Takahashi
Role: Commission, direction, selects, build.
How Men Make Friends: Hammering Pieces of Wood Together, Plus Power Tools
Reporting by Clare Ansberry
Photographs by Emil Lippe for The Wall Street Journal
Role: Commission, selects, build.
Writing
When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you're looking at her tears. The Los Angeles-based photographer's project, The Topography of Tears, stemmed from a curiosity steeped in emotional release.
Role: Interviewer, writer, photo edit, build.
The images of official White House photographers have always been shared widely. What made Pete Souza's tenure with the Obama White House different was that social media — and especially Instagram, founded in 2010 — gave him a popular new platform that previous photographers in the role didn't have.
During the Obama years, Souza posted current and archival photographs of the president's daily life and amassed several hundred thousand followers. Although Souza left the White House in 2017, he remained on Instagram as a private citizen. But his choice of photos — and the captions he wrote — changed.
Role: Interviewer, writer, photo edit, build.
Photography and nostalgia often have gone hand in hand; the scrapbook, the family album, the postcard, the Polaroid, even the Instagram post all reinforce a love for the way something was. In Nashville: Scenes from the New American South, novelist Ann Patchett and photographer Heidi Ross — both longtime Nashvillians — instead set out to show, in all its varied forms, how Nashville is.
"As emotions go, nostalgia is both cheap and unrealistic," Patchett writes. "Sometimes we're not even nostalgic for things we liked, it was just that we were used to seeing a particular thing in a particular place."
Role: Interviewer, writer, photo edit, build.
In 2012, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based photographer Dirk Anschütz became a father. The shift in his life was enormous. Anschütz was raised by a single mother. "I had never met my father, which was never a big deal," he says. But after his son Ray's birth, Anschütz says he didn't have a male parenting role model. This led to a curiosity about how other dads were raising their kids; curiosity that resulted in a six-year portrait project called Fathers and Sons.
Role: Interviewer, writer, photo edit, build.