Ashley Mowreader
@amowreader.com
journo second, dog lover first currently: graphics intern @ NBC News | CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
u can take the girl out of WA but not the WA out of the girl www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The Spokane wildfires in maps and photos
Three wildfires have burnt hundreds of buildings and forced thousands of evacuations in the Washington city.
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"Another GI Bill trade school based in New Hampshire charged $18,500 in tuition to teach veterans how to make fake rocks out of concrete, federal documents show. That course lasted eight days." wapo.st/4pW9eOt
GI Bill schools charged huge sums to train vets how to grow grass, make fake rocks
Trade schools fleeced VA — and taxpayers — of more than $300 million, often by teaching short and easy courses, a Post investigation finds.
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NBC News Data / Graphics’ @amowreader.com does a segment on the NBC News podcast about what it’s like for new college grads trying to find a job: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1mGf... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
The Ukraine and Iran Wars Collide in the Caspian Sea; Plus, the Entry-Level Job Slog
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Data from job boards and surveys show an unusually cool job market for new graduates, as well as a multiyear decline in entry-level job postings. Here's @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
"This kind of AI-driven price gouging gates essential information behind a paywall that moves simply depending on who you are. It undermines public trust in one of the core pillars of democracy." www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/this...
“This price was set by an algorithm”: News subscribers are surprised by a new line in their renewal emails
Outlets like Wired, NJ.com, and The Wall Street Journal are setting renewal prices just for you — and being forced to disclose it.
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New from @nbcnews.com's Data / Graphics team: A visual #dataViz dive into the wildfire smoke smothering the Midwest and northern U.S., with two maps and two diagrams. Words by @amowreader.com and also, we're taking down the paywall on this one. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
long live sports data and vamos argentina words by me, graphics by the nbc data graphic team www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The 2026 World Cup, in data, in four charts
104 matches, 48 teams, 16 cities, one winner: The World Cup in data.
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The @nbcnews.com Data / Graphics team continues its run of #WorldCup coverage, today with a #dataViz [paywall] piece on the World Cup histories of the teams still left, where we are now on goals per game, and World Cup fatigue. Here's @amowreader.com with the story: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
sometimes being the data intern is scraping decades worth of bowling alley data from the Census Bureau words: Shannon Pettypiece for @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Wall Street goes bowling for profits, driving up the price of a middle-class pastime
Fueled by private equity investments, Lucky Strike Entertainment went on a buying spree and now owns more than 1 in 10 American bowling alleys.
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gov database has the DoD labeled as Department of War
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New on NBC News : “The number of job titles that involve AI, even outside the tech world, is surging”
The number of job titles that involve AI, even outside the tech world, is surging
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New from @amowreader.com and Joelle Gross, for @nbcnews.com: New data from the job board Indeed finds the number of jobs that have listings with “AI” in the title has tripled from 2022 to 2026, touching 1 in 12 jobs on the site. [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The number of job titles that involve AI, even outside the tech world, is surging
Will your next job title include AI? The odds are rising.
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The cost of burgers is up. Fourth of July cookouts too. A quick [paywall'ed] piece on one slice of inflation pie, by @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Inflation is making an appearance at holiday cookouts this year, survey finds
The price of an average Fourth of July cookout increased 4.1% from 2025 to 2026.
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Learned how much @amowreader.com knows about Taylor Swift (a LOT) this week, and here, that knowledge is shared with you, in #dataViz form. [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
From heartbreak to happily ever after: The evolution of Taylor Swift’s music
Across 16 albums, the pop superstar’s lyrics have traced a journey from romance and heartbreak to marriage, lasting commitment and a new chapter with Travis Kelce.
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Here's @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com: World Cup goals are way up. Is the ball to blame? [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
President Trump promised his “big, beautiful bill” would supercharge the economy. Critics saw something else: a giant transfer of resources from low-income Americans to the wealthy. One year later, the biggest consequences are still to come.
How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America
President Donald Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill” a year ago. It unleashed the biggest ever rollback of federal programs serving the poor, while extending trillions of dollars in tax breaks disproportionately benefiting the rich.
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One year after Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill,” it has begun reshaping the country. At least 4 million people have lost food stamps. Millions more will lose healthcare. Refugees and other legal immigrants are getting kicked off the safety net. And the wealthiest Americans have gotten richer.
How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America
President Donald Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill” a year ago. It unleashed the biggest ever rollback of federal programs serving the poor, while extending trillions of dollars in tax breaks disp...
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New on NBC News : “Gooooooooals: Tracking Mbappé and Messi’s battle for the all-time World Cup scoring record”
Gooooooooals: Tracking Mbappé and Messi’s battle for the all-time World Cup scoring record
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Every time I start to jaywalk now I think of the NYT investigation of the pedestrians getting wrecked by trucks and SUVs and I pause
New from @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com: A timeline of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation project. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Timeline: Trump’s Reflecting Pool renovation grows in costs, complications
The project now has a $16 million price tag and faces new scrutiny, vandalism accusations and a desired July Fourth completion date.
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being a data journalist is, at its root, a lot of copy and pasting
New on NBC News : “Gas cost calculator: How much have higher gas prices cost you?”
Gas cost calculator: How much have higher gas prices cost you?
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INTERACTIVE: New from @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com, a gas price cost calculator that lets you figure out how much more you've paid for gas since the start of the Iran war. #dataViz www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
New on NBC News : “1,000,000,000,000 (that’s 1 trillion), in graphics”
1,000,000,000,000 (that’s 1 trillion), in graphics
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New #dataViz dive from @nbcnews.com into how to look at what a trillion is, in words and visuals. We have a chart, a ticker, an interactive, multiple three-dimensional renderings, it was a team effort (five bylines!) and it shows. [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Here's @amowreader.com with her first byline for @nbcnews.com: New federal data shows double-digit percentage point drops in the shares of 9- and 13-year-olds who read for fun almost every day. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Fewer kids and teens say they read for pleasure nearly every day compared with 2012.
New federal data shows double-digit percentage point drops in the shares of 9- and 13-year-olds who read for fun almost every day.
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i have had such a New York Day™️ in the past 24/hrs in ways i can't begin to explain
NBC News makes two (‼️) appearances in this week's @datawrapper.de round up of the best in #dataViz: www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...
Data Vis Dispatch, June 2: Extreme weather, gambling, and the Swiss Alps | Datawrapper Blog
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
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Idk what’s more exciting to me this summer, being reunited with my warm weather clothes or being reunited with my office clothes
