Communication

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Cheryl Phillips

Adjunct Faculty
Communication

Contact Information

Email

phillipc@seattleu.edu

Biography

Cheryl Phillips is the data enterprise editor at The Seattle Times, where she specializes in interactive visualizations. She regularly speaks to journalists and other groups about story-telling visually and with data. She has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years and was involved in The Seattle Times coverage of a police shooting which won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She also played a role in editing the interactive visualizations used in the project, Methadone and the Politics of Pain, which received a Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting. She is a former president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a grassroots training organization for journalists.