Hi. I’m Josh Williams. I design and code interactive stories at The New York Times, where I’ve been a multimedia editor for eight years. Previously, I worked at the Smithsonian and the Las Vegas Sun, and taught in the journalism programs at UC Berkeley and Columbia.

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How a Garden For the Poor Became a Playground For the Rich

The backyard of the Thelma Burdick building was an oasis for low-income tenants. The space was replaced by a chic hotel.

2018 The New York Times

How Well Do You Know the World?

Piggybacking on the success of our yearly “52 Place” series, we challenge our readers’ knowledge of our world.

2017 The New York Times

Have You Seen This?

Our culture critics take a whimsical, multimedia-rich look at eight “little things” worth your time.

2017 The New York Times

Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to Nowhere

First-person vignettes of the horrors of Boko Haram, told by fleeing refugees along a desert highway in Niger.

2017 The New York Times

This Is Your Life, Brought to You by Private Equity

A visual explainer in comic form, we look at the influence of private equity on our lives since the financial crisis.

2016 The New York Times

ISIS in America

A look at how far accused ISIS supporters got with their plans.

2016 The New York Times

52 Places to Go in 2016

For the fourth year in a row, I built our photo and video-rich feature of must-visit destinations.

2016 The New York Times

The Top Tennis Player in the World Started Here

An audio tour of the chidhood courts of Novak Djokovic, the Williams sisters, Roger Federer and others.

2015 The New York Times

Ten Years After Katrina

The city that went under in the surging waters of Hurricane Katrina has not returned, not to the way it used to be.

2015 The New York Times

How We Changed Our Thinking on Gay Marriage

Audio portraits of community leaders who have changed their view on gay marriage.

2015 The New York Times

Walking New York

Everyday New Yorkers tell their story of the city alongside the likes of Sonny Rollins and Ad-Rock. StreetView imagery takes us there.

2015 The New York Times

A Walk Through the Gallery

Miss the Museum of Modern Art’s “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs?” Take our wall-to-wall tour.

2015 The New York Times

The Secret Life of Passwords

Video portraits reveal that passwords unlock much more than our accounts.

2014 The New York Times

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

The United States went to war in Iraq expecting to destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, it found only remnants of chemical arms built in close collaboration with the West.

2014 The New York Times

Women of West Point

Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets. Photographer Damon Winter profiles six.

2014 The New York Times

Around an Island

Dozens of moments captured as Todd Heisler walked the perimeter of Manhattan over the course of one day in August.

2013 The New York Times

Tomato Can Blues

Taking visual cues from graphic novels, we tell the bizarre, real-life story of a seemingly undistinguished cage fighter.

2013 The New York Times

The Jockey

The multimedia-rich story of Russel Baze, the winningest jockey in American history, in words, videos and graphics.

2013 The New York Times

NYC’s Quiet Places

Moving portraits highlight just a few of the hundreds of reader-submitted quiet places in New York City. A map for the rest.

2013 The New York Times

Prop 8 Moments

An interactive audio transcript highlights key moments in the Supreme Court hearings on California’s Proposition 8.

2013 The New York Times

Best of Breed

Go behind the scenes of the 2013 Westminster Dog show, where we photographed 143 Best of Breed winners over two days.

2013 The New York Times

Snow Fall

Web development, including lead on the mobile experience, for this Pulitzer Prize-winning mixed media narrative about an Avalanche.

2012 The New York Times

Debate Fact Checks

A four-part, interactive look at truths, half-truths and context in the 2012 presidential and vice-presidential debates.

2012 The New York Times

Selective Storytelling

A reference by theme of candidates stretching the truth in stump speeches on the 2012 presidential campaign trail.

2012 The New York Times

What..? NYC Noise

An interactive graphic of sounds in New York City, with profiles of New Yorkers exposed to varying degrees of harm.

2012 The New York Times

Punched Out

An interactive documentary and Pulitzer finalist on the rise and fall of a NHL enforcer. I received an Emmy nomination for my role.

2011 The New York Times

Grunge Quiz

The 30-something me reached back into the teenage me years to pull together our 20th anniversary of grunge quiz.

2011 The New York Times

SchoolBook

Custom WordPress plugins to feed narrative content into a Rails app highlighting stories and data about NYC schools.

2011 The New York Times (Offline)

Bay Area News Sites

I built three hyper-local news sites, and a custom, media-rich WordPress theme to run them, as part of my Ford Foundation grant.

2009 UC Berkeley

CityLab

Worked with a student on a proof-of-concept, Django-based site comparing demographic and lifestyle data for 65 Bay Area cities.

2009 UC Berkeley (Offline)

Las Vegas Weekly

With outside designers and in-house developers, I managed the relaunch of an entertainment site for an edgy alt-weekly.

2008 Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas Sun

Managed designers, developers and journalists tasked with re-envisioning a dated news site into a multimedia-rich destination.

2008 Las Vegas Sun

Decision Stations

Kiosks present multiple first-person perspectives on conservation topics, illustrating the complexity of real-world issues.

2007 Smithsonian Institution (Offline)

Science Stations

Interactive screens allow visitors to explore three stories of Panda science: medicine, reproduction and animal management.

2007 Smithsonian Institution (Offline)