Sophie Chou
@sophiechou.bsky.social
Data reporter & researcher. Currently @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social. Pulitzer winner 🏆 Jersey girl 🏖️ formerly: ProPublica | Pew Research | MIT media lab • ➡️open to opportunities ⬅️
huge Optimum cable laying in our front yard since the storm in NJ on Fourth of July that’s a clear safety hazard but they refuse to send a crew to clear it ASAP. Does anyone know how I can expedite this process?
Day 3 no power no AC no internet service (Verizon down) in NJ ☹️
Huge (had to have been tornado?) hit NJ— my parents were hit the day before and are evacuated to a hotel. We were hit last night and a healthy tree in our front yard was torn straight out by its roots, no power no AC, power lines on fire now, surprised we can’t get more news about it
When someone tells me to go to hell but I’m already there 🎶 (this is why I’ll never support return to office)
Yes! @dwillis.bsky.social showed me that remote workers can have as big a presence (if not bigger!) than in office colleagues!
Derek Willis@dwillis.bsky.social · last mo.When I was a News Apps developer at ProPublica I worked remotely nearly all of the time. Wasn't ever mentioned as a problem, because with proper understanding between adults it's not.
Soccer isn’t my main sport but this was a BS red card right?
In order to support local news I have submitted my daughter to a local cute cat contest. Ctr + F “Mimi” to vote for her!! 🗳️ www.northjersey.com/story/news/n...
Which cat is New Jersey's cutest? Cast your vote here!
NorthJersey.com is on the hunt for the state's cutest cat, and the first round of voting has begun!
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Excited to join the @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social team for a research sprint focused on public health monitoring around the World Cup! ⚽️👩🏻🔬
Purely unscientific survey: If you are a NJ/NYC commuter, take the NJ transit regularly or work in the Meadowlands, how do you plan to get to work during the World Cup? Especially if you don’t have an option to work from home!
I am a diehard pedestrian who somehow moved to one of the most highway-dense towns in NJ. Walking to my local grocery store 20 mins away requires crossing the Garden State Parkway & going down broken sideways with poor visibility. Theres no way World Cup watchers will make it but I feel seen by this
Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸@princetonyimby.bsky.social · 3mo agoWith NJ Transit train tickets to MetLife stadium for the World Cup priced at $105, Guardian reporter Mark McPartland set out to test if it is possible to walk there instead. He walked 11.5 miles from NYC to MetLife in just under 5 hours... (1/2) www.theguardian.com/football/vid...
Haru is not online (good for her!) but she will be speaking on this panel!
Trans Journalists Association@transjournalists.org · 3mo agoJoin us for “Behind the Stories: Roundtable with TJA Pulitzer Winners and Finalists” a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists from across the TJA community. 🗓️: Thursday, May 14 ⌚️: 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET RSVP: bit.ly/42qrqot
The Trans Journalists Association is proud to celebrate several of our members who were recognized as Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists in the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes. Read more: bit.ly/4dwOTui
Trans Journalists Association Celebrates Members Recognized in 2026 Pulitzer Prizes
To celebrate this year’s Pulitzer honorees, TJA will host “Behind the Stories: Roundtable with TJA Pulitzer Finalists & Winners” on Thursday, May 14 at 12 p.m. PT / 2 p.m. CT / 3 p.m. ET.
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one of the pulitzer winners is sophie, who is on bluesky, and also on the job market! bsky.app/profile/soph...
Sophie Chou@sophiechou.bsky.social · 3mo ago4/ I’m no longer at ProPublica and am looking for what’s next — open to journalism, data science, or research/consulting roles (NYC/hybrid/remote). prioritizing good management + fair pay. read the full series @ctmirror.org (it’s their first Pulitzer!!): ctmirror.org/series/on-th...
Huge congratulations to all our current and former members who won or were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes today! All journalists deserve a fair contract that provides the job security necessary to do this work. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...
2026 Prize Winners and Finalists | The Pulitzer Prizes
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1/ I’m honored to share that I’m officially a Pulitzer Prize winner 🥹 Our series on Connecticut’s unscrupulous towing laws, in partnership with @ctmirror.org, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting.
Thank you @nicolefoy.bsky.social ❤️ It’s so amazing to be recognized for our work. I am currently on the job market! Open to both journalism & (elections, media, healthcare) research opportunities! Short + long term, hybrid NYC or remote preferred. Prioritizing good management & fair pay!
Nicole Foy@nicolefoy.bsky.social · 3mo agoshout out to my much-missed colleagues @sophiechou.bsky.social & @harucoryne.bsky.social for their incredible work on this project!! Btw this is the second project Sophie worked on that’s won a Pulitzer! And she’s job hunting! Someone hire her ASAP! 👀👀
I cannot believe I'm saying this, but I am a Pulitzer Prize winner.
The Connecticut Mirror@ctmirror.org · 3mo agoBREAKING: CT Mirror and @propublica.org have won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for "On the Hook," an investigation into how Connecticut's towing practices had come to favor tow companies at the expense of low-income residents. More here: ctmirror.org/series/on-th...
Tons of talented people worked on this project, including @sophiechou.bsky.social @harucoryne.bsky.social, Dave Altimari, @shahrzadrasekh.bsky.social and editing from Michael Grabell and Elizabeth Hamilton. Holy cow 🫶
Thank you Hannah!
Hannah Fresques@fresques.bsky.social · 3mo agoSo proud of data reporters @sophiechou.bsky.social and @harucoryne.bsky.social, who are Pulitzer Prize winners today. They made sense of tens of thousands of scanned, hand written forms to uncover how the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars www.propublica.org/article/prop...
SO proud of @sophiechou.bsky.social, an AMAZING data reporter, more importantly a wonderful person, for her Pulitzer in local reporting about Connecticut’s towing laws favoring unscrupulous companies. Also named is ex ProPublica reporter @harucoryne.bsky.social 🎉 www.pulitzer.org/winners/dave...
Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica
For an impressive series exposing how the state’s unique towing laws favored unscrupulous companies that overcharged residents, prompting swift and meaningful consumer protections.
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So proud to be a Pulitzer winner along with my friends @harucoryne.bsky.social and @ginnymonk.bsky.social who all worked so hard on this messy data together!
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo agoJUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.
See ya #NICAR26 ! Thank you for honoring this work that we worked so hard on for 2+ years and poured our hearts and souls and Zoom time into ❤️ @andreasuozzo.com @ire.org
If you’re interested in learning more about how we did this story, @andreasuozzo.com and I are talking about it at #NICAR26
Cassandra Jaramillo@cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’ve been thinking a lot about the hundreds of pregnant women navigating this broken system in Texas. Our team has reported data that shows a horrifying story: www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Feeling a righteous rage after ping ponging btwn doctor’s offices for weeks due to bleeding and abdominal pain. Turns out my IUD partially expelling out of my uterus into my abdomen. Dallas Baylor ER was only place that could help me. Women’s healthcare in Texas is very broken 😞