JENNA COHEN



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Design + Development Highlights:
Smart Shopping Quiz
Elaine Massacre Mini Documentary
PBS News Graphics Collection
Data Visualization Highlights:
PBS News Poll
N.Y. Illegal Weed Market
Live Map: Hurricane Tracker
Product Highlights:
PBS News Rebrand
Printing Hate Website
2024 Primary and Caucus Elections
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PBS News Rebrand

What I did: Created wireframes and prototypes for site layouts; designed new templates for web, social, and video content; oversaw asset distribution across broadcast and digital teams.

What I used: Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, GitHub, WordPress, OneDrive

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Smart Shopping Quiz

What I did: Designed, prototyped, and developed an interactive quiz web page; created illustrations for interactive assets.

What I used: Figma, Illustrator, Procreate, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GitHub, WordPress

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PBS News Data Visualizations Collection

What I did: Produced interactive, static, and animated data visualizations; collaborated with reporters and editors; aggregated and verified data.

What I used: Datawrapper, Carto, Illustrator, After Effects, Excel, Google Sheets, R

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PBS News Website | Election 2024

What I did: Designed and prototyped layouts for site homepage, electoral calculator map and results graphics; collaborated across product, digital, and broadcast teams.

What I used: Figma, WordPress, Associated Press API

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PBS News Super Screen | Election 2024

What I did: Designed Super Screen UI; lead production on Super Screen graphics segments before, during & after election special coverage; created bespoke graphics; collaborated across broadcast, creative and engineering teams.

What I used: Figma, Illustrator, TacticDraw, Google Suite, Microsoft Suite

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PBS News Graphics Collection

What I did: Produced news graphics for PBS News’ website and social platforms; created and managed graphic templates.

What I used: Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, OneDrive

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Live Map: Hurricane Helene Tracker

What I did: Built a visualization to display a live storm tracker; kept interactive up-to-date with Associated Press content and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/WPC graphics.

What I used: HTML, WordPress, Photoshop

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Dengue Fever

What I did: Visualized data on dengue fever cases in the Americas since 1980.

What I used: Datawrapper, HTML, WordPress

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2024 Primary and Caucus Elections

What I did: Wireframed and prototyped pages to host Associated Press graphics for live national and state election results, a delegate tracker, a 2024 election calendar, and all election-related stories; collaborated with the social team to produce winner graphics after race calls.

What I used: Figma, WordPress, Illustrator, HTML, GitHub

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How many book bans were attempted in your state?

What I did: Co-authored story on book bans in the U.S.; visualized data on restricted books.

What I used: Flourish, Illustrator, WordPress

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2022 Midterm Election Coverage

What I did: Designed the election denier tracker (classifying figures as deniers, doubters, or defenders); co-authored an election guide newsletter; wrote two data-driven stories on the role of secretaries of state in elections and how our map can identify who runs elections in your state.

What I used: Datawrapper, Figma, Illustrator, Mailchimp, WordPress

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South Dakota Medicaid Expansion

What I did: Designed the page layout for enterprise story; visualized data on medicaid coverage gap and maternal care deserts; hired and coordinated local photographer to travel with reporter and photograph subjects.

What I used: Datawrapper, Figma, Illustrator, WordPress

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Elaine Massacre Mini Documentary

What I did: Integrated archival materials, custom illustrations, audio and video interviews, data visualizations, and motion graphics into a cohesive mini-documentary.

What I used: After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate, Carto, Datawrapper

Awards: SPJ Best Use of Multimedia, Festival of Media Arts Award of Excellence

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Printing Hate Website

What I did: Designed project branding and developed the site infrastructure.

What I used: HTML, CSS, WordPress, XD, Illustrator, Photoshop

Awards: Online Journalism Award, IRE Medal, NLA Innovator of the Year, SPJ Award for Collaborative Journalism

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Mega Billions Data Visualizations

What I did: Created visualizations on the history of lotteries and the most popular types of lottery games.

What I used: Datawrapper, Illustrator, Procreate

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Goucher Poll Quiz

What I did: Illustrated images to accompany each poll question.

What I used: Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate

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Nowhere To Go Website

What I did: Designed project branding, developed the site infrastructure, and produced stories and data visualizations.

What I used: HTML, CSS, WordPress, XD, Photoshop, Datawrapper

Awards: SPJ Award for Collaborative Journalism

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Public Housing Motion Graphic

What I did: Illustrated and animated the process of how public housing tenants are evicted.

What I used: After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, YouTube

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Evictions Motion Graphic

What I did: Illustrated and animated how individuals can be evicted and how pandemic eviction moratoria impacted them.

What I used: After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, YouTube