Chris Essig
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Chris Essig is the data visuals editor at The Texas Tribune. Based in Austin, he leads a team of developers who build charts, maintain public databases, and analyze data to help reporters hold elected officials accountable.
Essig has been a newsroom developer for 10 years and has worked in several local newsrooms.
A native of the Midwest, he received his journalism degree from Eastern Illinois University and spent six years in Iowa working at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids and at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
