{"id":1867,"date":"2017-08-09T23:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T23:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T23:04:03","slug":"kat-downs","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kat Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kat is the Graphics Director at The Washington Post. She leads a team of designers, developers, reporters and illustrators that create visual stories, including graphics, databases and multimedia projects. She has taught design and development at Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism and Georgetown University. Before joining The Post in 2008, she worked at The Baltimore Sun. Her work has been honored by the Peabody Awards, the Society of Newspaper Design, the Online Journalism Awards and the Malofiej International Infographics Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1865,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Kat","last_name":"Downs","title":"Graphics Director","organization":"The Washington Post","website":"http:\/\/kat-downs.com","twitter":"katdowns","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"yoast_head":"\nKat Downs - ONA17<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kat Downs - ONA17\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kat is the Graphics Director at The Washington Post. She leads a team of designers, developers, reporters and illustrators that create visual stories, including graphics, databases and multimedia projects. She has taught design and development at Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism and Georgetown University. Before joining The Post in 2008, she worked at The…  Read More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ONA17\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/onlinenewsassociation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/Kat-Downs-sq.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mobiletrevor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@onaconf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" value=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" value=\"Trevor Knoblich\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" value=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" value=\"0 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/\",\"name\":\"ONA17\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/Kat-Downs-sq.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":300},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/\",\"name\":\"Kat Downs - ONA17\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-09T23:04:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-08-09T23:04:03+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/kat-downs\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}