Sandeep Junnarkar

Interactive Journalism Director, Newmark J-School

Sandeep Junnarkar

Interactive Journalism Director, Newmark J-School
twitter-icon

Biography

Sandeep Junnarkar began his career by helping to build the earliest digital editions of The New York Times as a breaking news editor, reporter, and web producer. For The Times, he wrote articles that explored the intersection of technology and how it was reshaping major fields like medicine, psychiatry, and communications.

Junnarkar is also a consulting newsroom trainer at Bloomberg where he is focused on creating curriculum around data journalism. He’s also advising Bloomberg journalists on their data news projects.

More recently, he conceived of and spearheaded The Hate Index, a website that compiles incidents of intolerance since the 2016 presidential elections. Visitors can filter the hate incidents by who, where, and how the hate occurred.

In 2017, he and his colleague Jere Hester received a grant from the NYC Media Lab to work on an augmented reality project called YOU ARE HERE – an immersive smartphone-based experience that uses AR to tell NYC stories, melding past and present from a street-level view.

He is also busy with a team building a groundbreaking tool called PathChartr, which would allow news and community organizations without coders to deliver personalized, relevant, and helpful information to users who are guided through interactive journeys, fueled by their answers to a series of questions.

All session by Sandeep Junnarkar

Lightning Talks: On Innovation

11:15 - 12:30
Newsroom