Larry Buchanan

I report stories for The New York Times that use a variety of visual forms — maps, charts, diagrams, photographs, video — to explain the world better than words alone can. I’ve spent more than a decade at The Times, covering stories for nearly every desk, including breaking news, the presidency of Donald J. Trump, gun violence in America and the last four Olympic Games.

I’ve skied with Mikaela Shiffrin (I fell), been on a balance beam with Simone Biles (I almost fell), covered a hurricane from an IHOP in Orlando and flown a drone over the Panama Canal.
My work often involves creating data sets where they didn’t exist before, like watching and categorizing all 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”; reading each of the 11,390 tweets Trump posted while in office; and aggregating more than 40,000 reader submissions to create the most detailed map of New York City’s neighborhoods ever published. 

I’ve always been interested in the intersection of art and journalism and how we can use both to better explain the world. Before working for The Times, I reported and made interactive graphics for The New Yorker. I have also taught journalism at universities for more than a decade.

I have won two Emmy Awards for my work on shows about two extremely different television hosts: Bob Ross and Tucker Carlson.