Amy O'Kruk
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Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Using digital drawing to explore new perspectives and add context to breaking news
What Happens During a Government Shutdown?
Using illustration to make abstract topics more concrete for readers
How Much Snow Calls for a Snow Day?
A fun data story looking at snow quantity and school closures
What Would Happen If We Didn’t Have Leap Years?
This explainer uses a unique angle to challenge what readers think they know
Where the Deadliest US Twisters Touch Down
A data story digging into the myth of Tornado Alley
Pro-Palestinian Protest Arrests at Colleges
A timeline of where protests erupted and who police arrested
Elections Glossary
Designed and developed to dynamically update based on a linked doc with terms
Transforming the Appellate Courts
Distilling a highly complex subject into digestible visuals
Holiday Foods and Inflation
Visualizing how inflation hiked the price of some 2022 holiday favorites