Ryan Watts

Some personal news: I am moving to New York next month to join the @WSJ as Director of Visual Storytelling. Can't wait to get started and help a talented newsroom tell stories in compelling and innovative ways 🍎

The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom on.wsj.com/3WwBOHK on.wsj.com/3WwBOHK

@DavidClinchNews @WSJ Thanks David!

@ryanleewatts @WSJ Congratulations!

Some personal news: I am moving to New York next month to join the @WSJ as Director of Visual Storytelling. Can't wait to get started and help a talented newsroom tell stories in compelling and innovative ways 🍎

@Amber_Tesia @WSJ Many thanks! 🙏

@Spiewak @WSJ Cheers Stephen!

@ryanleewatts @WSJ Congrats and best wishes!

@saywhatsaywah @WSJ Thanks Saywah! 🙏

@ryanleewatts @WSJ Congratulations 🎉

@alanhhunter @WSJ Cheers Alan 🙏 Hope you're well!

@ryanleewatts @WSJ Congratulations Ryan. It’s a great move for you - and the WSJ!

@MarieSegger @WSJ Thanks Marie! Much appreciated

@ryanleewatts @WSJ Congrats, Ryan! What an exciting move

@isik5 @WSJ Thank you Isik 🙏

@ryanleewatts @WSJ Congrats Ryan!

Excited to work with the brilliant @TanethAutumn again and I'm looking forward to meeting my new colleagues. Should be a nice, quiet year for news in which to get started... My DMs are open, say hi 👋

I left @thetimes earlier this month, after *exactly* six years (and two days...). Very sad to leave such a wonderful team of experts and some great pals. I have learned so much from all of you and I shall be watching and cheering from the sidelines

📊 New Unwrapped speaker! @matildakdavies, data journalist at The Times, will share how her team created a Datawrapper workflow that upskills the whole newsroom. See some of the amazing visualizations The Times created & learn more about Matilda here: blog.datawrapper.de/the-times-mati…

@TonyBrannon @Datawrapper You can upload your data as a single year i.e. 2003, so it still recognises as a date and then do a custom format of BB to get it to show as 2003-04 on the chart 👍

Does anyone know the format for football seasons so @Datawrapper can read them as dates? #datawrapper I.e. 2003/2004

Step 1️⃣ Take our fun quiz to predict what will happen in 2024. Step 2️⃣ Give us your email address. Step 3️⃣ ???? Step 4️⃣ This time next year we show you how much you got right, and how your score compares to other @thetimes readers thetimes.co.uk/article/714920…

🏠 Will property values go down in my area? Click below to use our new postcode tool to find out how house prices have changed in your neighbourhood — and what the future may hold ⬇️ #Echobox=1701931063" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-pro…

NEW: The city with 13 bin collections 🗑️♻️ Rishi Sunak pledged to "scrap" having 7 kerbside bins back in September. But what is the right number of bins? And how can we fix the UK's stagnant recycling rate? For today's @thetimes, I dived into Britain's bins 🧵👇 (1/)

🚨 DATA JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 We're hiring a Senior Data Journalist at The Times & The Sunday Times This time we're open to a range of skills and experience, from scoop-getters to developers. Here's a short thread of the kind of projects you might work on 🧵 #ddj #dataviz

This month, we are wrangling geospatial data and making maps with GeoPandas 🐼🗺️

The faces of the hostage crisis 👇 100s of people remain missing from Israel following the Oct 7 Hamas attacks We’ve verified the names of 207 people and put their stories together for @thetimes w/ @RachelLavin and @narottammedhora 🧵 thetimes.co.uk/article/eff2f5…

New: An in-depth look at electoral maths of Starmer’s Gaza ceasefire headache - with the charts that show he can (probably) afford to lose Muslim voters. Insiders fear voter desertion seen in after Iraq in 2005 but all bar a handful of MPs are safe 👇🏼👇🏼 thetimes.co.uk/article/0198ad…