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Taylor Johnston
@taylorjohnston.bsky.social
📊 visual data journalist at CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/team/taylor-johnston/
One-third of dialysis clinics failed to meet federal standards this year.

Our data team’s latest uncovered serious shortcomings in the quality of care across the dialysis industry and I built an interactive lookup tool so you can see how each clinic performed:

www.cbsnews.com/dialysis/
June 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
With peak bloom approaching, here’s a look at the history of peak bloom for the Tidal Basin cherry trees. 🌸

www.cbsnews.com/news/washing...
March 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Our investigation is a semifinalist!
Announcing the semifinalists for this year's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting! This group represents the top 30 entries that our judges deemed to be of extremely high quality and in keeping with the Prize’s criteria for impact on US government: loom.ly/Rqu0D…
February 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Learn how to work with wildfire data at #NICAR25. @cbsnews.com journalists Grace Manthey and @taylorjohnston.bsky.social will show you how to use (and clean) data from the National Interagency Fire Center, and create a basic interactive map with MapLibre. schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i...
February 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Next week, I’ll be at #NICAR25 in Minneapolis, teaching sessions on hacking your Datawrapper charts and creating simple wildfire trackers for your newsroom!
February 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
One year on the CBS News data team! Here are some of my favorite data visualizations from the past 12 months! It’s been incredible to help shape our team’s viz style guide and see how our charts have evolved. Plus, I had the chance to work on some of CBS’s first ai2html and interactive pieces! ✨
February 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM