Hi, I’m Denise Lu, a senior graphics reporter at Bloomberg News. Previously, I have worked at The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Find me @DeniseDSLu / bsky / mail / etc.

Some stuff I’ve worked on:

Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming It.

The New York Times Magazine, 2023

Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power?

The New York Times, 2022

Travel the path of the solar eclipse

The Washington Post, 2017

Every eclipse in your lifetime

The Washington Post, 2017

The path to Super Bowl LI in sound

The Washington Post, 2017

Sizing up the Olympics

The Washington Post, 2016

What Paris looks like with an echo

The Washington Post, 2014

Some mostly functional projects for fun:

PAVEMENT 1933-2023

Visualizing three decades of Pavement setlist data. 2023.

HTML TV

“Channel-flipping” through song snippets on a fake HTML TV. 2022.

My work has been recognized with top accolades from Malofiej and the Society for News Design. In 2023, a package I contributed to won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. In 2020, a package I contributed to was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in public service. In 2018, I received the Solar Physics Division Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society.

My Wikipedia mentions include citations of a project I did in 2014 on the page for Databending and a namecheck on the page for Chinese people in New York City for some reason.