Madi Alexander

Hi there! I'm Madi Alexander, a digital journalist living in Dallas, Texas.

Right now I'm senior graphics editor at POLITICO and POLITICO Pro. Previously I was a computational journalist for The Dallas Morning News. Before moving to Texas, I was a data journalist for Bloomberg Government in Washington, D.C. I have a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, where I specialized in data reporting. My bachelor's degree is in political science and mass communications.

During my journalism career, I've covered everything from Congress to the Pope to tractor pulls. My work been been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, Bloomberg News, CNN and more.

Skills I have: research & reporting, social media management, social media analytics, statistical analysis, data cleaning, mapping and spatial analysis, data visualization, FOIA and open records gathering, backgrounding, multimedia reporting, video editing, writing & copyediting

Tools and software I use: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Excel, Carto, ArcMap/ArcGIS, QGIS, OpenRefine, Git/Github, D3, Tableau, Chartbuilder, Document Cloud, SocialFlow, Sprout Social, Outbrain, Parse.ly

In my free time, I like cooking, eating tacos, hiking, and gardening. I keep a database of all the national parks and historical sites I've visited—a total of 36 thus far. I'm also a volunteer puppy raiser for Guide Dogs for the Blind, teaching the pups good manners and providing socialization from 8 weeks to about 20 months old when they return to campus for formal guidework training.