Michael Keller

Notable work and positions

The New York Times — Reporter, investigations team, covering artificial intelligence, algorithms, robots, and technology
Bloomberg News — Former member, data journalism and graphics team
Columbia Journalism School — Adjunct instructor
Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University — Former research fellow

Biography

Michael Henry Keller is a data and graphics journalist based in New York. He holds a master's degree from the Columbia Journalism School, where he completed the Lede Program for data journalism, and where he has worked as an adjunct instructor. He co-founded a journalist-hacker collective called csv soundsystem and was a research fellow at Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, where he co-created NewsLynx, a research project to help newsrooms measure the qualitative impact of their reporting. Earlier in his career he worked as a multimedia journalist at Al Jazeera America, reporting on and building interactive projects at the intersection of technology and civic life, including a graphic novel on digital privacy co-created with cartoonist Josh Neufeld. He also worked at Bloomberg News on its data journalism and graphics team, contributing reporting including an analysis of FEMA's flood maps and interactive tracking of a U.S. president's global conflicts of interest. He is currently a reporter on The New York Times investigations team. His awards include a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for contributions to a series on police traffic stops, a 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist citation in National Reporting, and a 2019 George Polk Award in National Reporting, both for a team collection of stories on technology and social media.