Erin Caughey
@erin_caughey
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News dev @sfchronicle. Alum @journalsentinel. From the greatest state with the greatest lakes aka #PureMichigan.
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Joined May 2009
A minor but stunning takeaway from our reporting is @HarshaReports's finding that within the L.A. burn zones, about 50% of homes were left standing. That's thousands of homes that survived the flames, but may have been left soiled by toxic soot and ash. https://t.co/pRyGcXoVne
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This week, @sfchronicle is publishing a series of stories on what is perhaps the most pressing issue facing the region. We are getting old fast.
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If you've ever wondered where your 99 cents for 3 months goes, it funds Susie and I traveling to wildfire communities across the state for six months so we could report a story that is now the subject of a five-state investigation:
More news: A coalition of five Western states is launching a probe into underinsurance among wildfire survivors, following @meganfanmunce's and my investigation for the @sfchronicle Gift link: https://t.co/GFg3ZaJYU2
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Love this project by @namisumida (who decided to illustrate it herself!) on building codes for having a single stairway, which can lead to complications for housing in San Francisco. Pro tip: Scroll the OPPOSITE way to read it.
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We asked AI to visualize the Bay Area. It … got a little weird. Our latest project from @kwonjs_ @ChaseDiFelice and, yes!, @JohnKingSFChron
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We asked four different generative AI models to depict today’s San Francisco, its residents and how the city would look in 2074.
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The @sfchronicle is hiring an investigative editor! Please apply and come work with us on the paper's most ambitious projects :) and feel free to DM me with any questions.
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Investigative Editor The San Francisco Chronicle has an opening for an ambitious and resourceful editor to lead investigations, narrative storytelling and special projects across the newsroom. The...
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And do hire Rahul as well. He was the force behind some of my favorite projects, like Olympic Heat and https://t.co/zS04PjgXUN the best sankey ever
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Today's five biggest airlines have gobbled up 45 others since 1960.
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Discover how climate change is reshaping California's cities! Awesome story and graphics by @jackjlee and @janiehaseman #ClimateChange #California #Sustainability
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San Francisco’s climate is expected to change. New data finds it will resemble that of a small town in San Diego County. This map shows the possible scenarios.
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This was my last contribution @sfchronicle. Proud to have worked on this compelling visual essay that @YOSHIFOTO has spent years documenting, with creative work by @erin_caughey, @GuyWathen, Ash Adams, @alexkfong & many more! https://t.co/nhLkOgBskA
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Along its six miles through Oakland and Berkeley, Martin Luther King Jr. Way reflects divergent realities in the communities it connects.
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Latest: The San Francisco Influence List. These are the people influencing the city that I grew up in. Coding by @la_yuriavila and a whopping 21 illustrations by John Blanchard.
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San Francisco is changing. These are people whose decisions will shape that change — for better or worse.
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✨ please apply to be our next deputy creative director! ✨ you would be managing and/or working w/ a team of developers like @erin_caughey, designers like @stephzhu_ , illustrators like @ToddTrumbull and graphics reporters like @la_yuriavila and me~
Life has been super eventful recently. I became the S.F. Chronicle's creative director and joined its masthead last month. And now we're searching for a new deputy creative director. Come work with me! https://t.co/GRQ94JL2JT
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The @sfchronicle is hiring a data visualization editor! Come join our amazing data team and help us take our data graphics to the next level. https://t.co/rKAi4oWVIn
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Here's the moon covering 89% of sun at the eclipse's peak coverage from Milwaukee at about 2:10 p.m. #Eclipse2024
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We introduce the United States Groundwater Well Database (USGWD), which contains 14.2+ million use and monitoring wells across the US. 1/9 Paper: https://t.co/H8bMJbBkgL Data: https://t.co/wdNX2yyhiY
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Life has been super eventful recently. I became the S.F. Chronicle's creative director and joined its masthead last month. And now we're searching for a new deputy creative director. Come work with me! https://t.co/GRQ94JL2JT
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Deputy Creative Director The San Francisco Chronicle has an immediate opening for a deputy creative director to lead the visual storytelling and design of the newsroom’s most ambitious digital...
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Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII devastated SF's Japantown - what was once a rich, thriving neighborhood for Japanese Americans For the first time, we can visualize how disastrous a 1942 order was on the community @sfchronicle
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Deadly police chases are killing record numbers of Americans. The vast majority of people killed are suspected of only a minor crime, or no crime at all. Read our investigation:
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Police chases kill nearly two people a day across the US, and the government is failing at nearly every level to address the growing problem.
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Yes… we are working with AI! It’s pretty fun: ask our bot where to eat in the Bay Area, and it’ll surface a recommendation via the @sfchronicle (human) food team
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This bot can help you search through a universe of restaurant reviews, all vetted by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Three months ago when my editor suggested writing data stories about the Warriors, I had watched maybe five NBA games in my life. Here is the result of my 3-months long deep dive into NBA data, the Warriors & Steph Curry @sfchronicle
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Stephen Curry, the greatest jump shooter of all time, continues to defy expectations. Here's how the NBA superstar continues to evolve his game.
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He hurdled over Chronicle legend @CAGisMe
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