Have you worked on visualizations such as those in the article, or do you have a different position? I am very interested in this industry, but I haven't met anyone with experience there yet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syrian-refugees-technolo...
Useful to tell better stories and retain readers, these widgets are also a great engagement boost. :-)
I've had reporters say "I found some data, can we do something with it" and it's not nearly as useful as "I'm writing a story about X, how can we use this data to visualize Y to illustrate X?". It's amazing just how rare that understanding can be from traditional media folks.