Lena Groeger is an American investigative journalist, graphic designer and news application developer at ProPublica.
12 Facts About Lena Groeger
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Lena Groeger creates data visualizations and interactive databases on a variety of subjects, including education, politics and healthcare.
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Lena Groeger writes about design's role in society in a series called Visual Evidence.
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Lena Groeger authored multiple notable articles, including her 2011 Wired report on British Social Entrepreneur Ken Banks and his FrontlineSMS messaging software and her 2012 Scientific American piece on the high-IQ Triple Nine Society, which Scientific American republished in 2014 and then in 2015.
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Lena Groeger has occasionally produced science journals since she joined ProPublica in 2011.
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Lena Groeger's data-related work is not limited to data journalism.
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Lena Groeger is credited with multiple projects that aggregate, update, analyze, and communicate large datasets from public sources in a way that guarantees the accessibility, readability, and timeliness of the data presented.
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Lena Groeger has taught courses on design and data visualization at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, The New School, and New York University.
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Lena Groeger has instructed a variety of workshops at the ProPublica Data Institute and has spoken at many data journalism and investigative journalism conferences around the world.
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Lena Groeger has served on the board of the Society for News Design since 2016.
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Lena Groeger co-authored the winning investigation of the 2015 Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal and the 2016 Gerald Loeb Award for Explanatory business journalism, "Insult to Injury" by ProPublica, a project exposing the unsatisfactory level of worker compensation in the United States.
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Lena Groeger was named finalist in the "Excellence in Local Reporting" category of the 2017 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists for her co-authorship the news application, "Tracking Evictions and Rent Stabilization in NYC" that Groeger and three of her colleagues at ProPublica produced in 2016.