Barnaby Skinner
Barnaby Skinner, Ressortleiter NZZ Visuals, 1974
From 2002 to 2006 I managed a team of online journalists for news.ch, one of the first online only news outlets in the German speaking world. In 2006 I joined the Swiss Sunday newspaper SonntagsZeitung as a technology reporter. In 2011, I became a founding member of Opendata.ch, a foundation focused on opening up the troves of data the Swiss administration has tucked away. I also started to explore new reporting techniques with tools like Google Fusion, Outwib Hub or Open Refine. It was, however, the four month Lede-Program course at Columbia School of Journalism in New York, which I attended in 2016 and my employer Tamedia kindly financed, that provided me with programming skills to exercise deep and complex data investigations. In Februar 2020, I moved to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, I manage the visuals department consisting of a team of data journalists, visual journalists, software developers and OSINT researchers.