Hannah Recht
I’m a data journalist at KHN, a nonprofit newsroom, where I report on health care. On the side, I run an open-source R package, censusapi, which makes it easy to grab U.S. Census Bureau data programmatically.
Previously, I worked as a data and graphics reporter at Bloomberg News. Before journalism, I worked in public policy research at the Urban Institute as a data analyst and data visualization developer. I graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in mathematics and statistics and a minor in epidemiology.
You can read my latest work at KHN, see my open code and data on Github and find me on Twitter.
Software
Selected Journalism
A KHN-AP series examining how the U.S. public health front lines have been left understaffed and ill-prepared to save us from the coronavirus pandemic. Winner of the 2021 Online Journalism Awards University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism and a gold 2020 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.
Ongoing reporting on disparities in the covid-19 pandemic.
Selected journalism featuring bespoke graphics, design and web development.

Winner of the 2019 Malofiej Award for Equality and Women’s Promotion Best Graphic, Digital.