Hello
My name is Amy DiPierro. I am a data journalist reporting in the public interest.
My job is to look at the world and report what I see. In pursuit of that goal, I borrow liberally from fields like statistics and computer programming, and do the usual number-dialing and door-knocking, too.
I work at EdSource, California’s largest education newsroom, where I lead our coverage of California State University. I was previously a data journalist at the Center for Public Integrity, where my reporting received an honorable mention in the Philip Meyer Journalism Award contest. I also played a small role in a very cool Big Local News project called civic-scraper.
I studied history and economics at Swarthmore College and hold a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University, where I was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.
You can catch me discussing my work in places like KPBS and Capital Public Radio, as well as journalism conferences like NICAR and IRE.
Kudos
- Special citation, Philip Meyer Journalism Award - Investigative Reporters & Editors (2023)
- Shortlist - Sigma Awards (2023)
- Breaking Barriers Award - Institute for Nonprofit News (2023)
- Dateline Awards - Winner, Online Series - Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (2023)
- Stewart B. McKinney Award - Human Right to Housing Awards - National Homelessness Law Center (2023)
Skills
- Computer programming and web scraping with Python
- Data analysis with R and SQL
- Structured data extraction, categorization and more with large language models
- Automation with GitHub Actions
- Data visualization with Datawrapper and Flourish
- Map making with QGIS and R
- Static site web development with Quarto
- Version control with Git and GitHub
- Public records requests