I am a currently a Senior Projects Editor leading audience strategy and cross-platform storytelling for The Washington Post's most ambitious reporting and investigations. I lead a team of five planning and projects editors who oversee large, cross-functional teams for planned news events, enterprise reporting, major projects, investigations and complex lines of coverage. My team engages from inception through launch and is tasked with developing coverage and promotion plans, facilitating collaboration across departments, instilling audience insights throughout the coverage lifecycle and identifying opportunities for innovation and experimentation. I have experience leading teams and editing across a range of formats including podcasts, immersive visual projects, data-driven reporting, documentaries, and visual investigations.
I am passionate about experimenting with new formats, surprising audiences across platforms, building workflows to scale innovative storytelling and deepening reader engagement.
Discord Leaks
I organized breaking news coverage and year-end enterprise coverage as one of the lead editors for the Washington Post’s investigation into the leak of hundreds of classified documents on Discord. The Post obtained more than 300 of the documents that Teixeira is accused of posting. In addition to guiding collaboration across departments on a quickly developing story, I led brainstorming and long-term planning for year-end enterprise reporting — shaping our coverage plans, managing collaboration with Frontline on “The Discord Leaks” documentary and coordinating our audience and promotion strategy. The Post’s Discord Leaks coverage was a semifinalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and nominated for two News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Abused by the Badge
I guided long-term planning and launch strategy and oversaw a team of more than 50 journalists investigating police officers accused of sexually abusing children. I coordinated production workflows and deadlines across multiple departments; partnered to lead user research; worked to instill audience insights and visual best practices into our coverage planning; and developed launch and promotion strategies for a year-long investigation. The ongoing project has been recognized as a finalist in the Online Journalism Awards.
Memory Inc.
I managed production workflows for a team of 30 journalists for an exclusive Washington Post investigation into a pattern of neglect in America’s booming assisted-living industry. I worked with business editors to shape the content and presentation strategy for a series of four stories that published simultaneously. SABEW awarded the project a Best in Business Award in the Health/Science category and the Online Journalism Awards recognized it as a finalist for the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award.
Cartel RX
I was a lead editor on the investigation tracing the fentanyl epidemic from Mexican labs to U.S. streets and revealing how government failures aggravated the worst drug crisis in American history. I worked from the inception of the year-long investigation to develop and shape coverage plans, guide innovative and cross-platform storytelling approaches and lead the audience and distribution strategy for an ambitious week-long rollout of the seven-part investigation. I oversaw the production workflows and deadlines for a team of more than 45 Washington Post journalists who contributed to the reporting, design, production and launch of the investigation. The Post was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for the investigation.
Broken Doors
I led a team of 35 people and guided the launch strategy for “Broken Doors,” a podcast investigating how no-knock warrants are deployed in the American justice system. I coordinated production across multiple departments for the 6-episode podcast and managed a multi-week launch that included a trailer, digital landing page, FAQ on no-knock warrants, Washington Post Live event, behind-the-scenes Q&A, takeaways and two accompanying stories that further detail findings from our investigation. The launch was accompanied by a robust social, PR and digital marketing strategy. I worked with visual stakeholders to brainstorm and produce the digital landing page, and co-wrote the FAQ and project takeaways. “Broken Doors” was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting.
Field Trip
I led audience and launch strategy for “Field Trip,” a documentary audio series exploring the complicated past and uncertain future of America’s national parks, and the most urgent stories playing out in five of those iconic landscapes today. I guided a team of more than 50 journalists to align on key initiatives to accompany the release of the 5-episode podcast, so listeners and readers could discover this immersive project wherever they consume content from The Washington Post. In addition to developing coverage and promotion plans — including podcast and social platforms, related stories and guides, digital marketing and live events — I was also a contributing editor on the podcast. Field Trip was a finalist for the duPont-Columbia award.
➜ View the project here ➜ Read more: America’s national parks
The Pegasus Project
I was a lead editor on The Washington Post’s reporting for The Pegasus Project, a collaborative investigation into military-grade spyware by 17 news organizations coordinated by Forbidden Stories. I guided the distribution, promotion and subscriber strategy of at least 18 stories; led a team of more than 50 journalists across our newsroom; and oversaw production to ensure we met deadlines for an ambitious week-long rollout. I also edited the project’s takeaways landing page and guided our visuals teams. Our launch was coordinated across platforms, including web, Apple News, newsletters, social and print, so readers could find the investigation wherever they read The Washington Post and included at least 15 stories, a video, a podcast episode and a landing page. The Forbidden Stories network, The Washington Post and the Guardian were recognized with the OJA Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism award for the Pegasus Project and the Polk Award for Technology Reporting.
Pandora Papers
I was a lead editor at The Washington Post on the investigation that revealed the flows of money, property and other assets concealed in the offshore financial system. The Post was part of a team of more than 600 journalists in 117 countries and territories who collaborated on the Pandora Papers investigation, led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. I worked with a team of more than 60 journalists from across The Washington Post newsroom who reported, produced and promoted the investigation, and I helped coordinate with our partners at ICIJ. Additionally, I collaborated to shape the storytelling and presentation of at least 12 stories across platforms; oversaw reader engagement aspects of the project, including our FAQ, takeaways and about the investigation pages; and guided our distribution, social, audience and promotion strategies for a multi-day launch. The Washington Post, ICIJ and media partners received the Scripps Howard Impact Award, Katherine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability from the White House Correspondents’ Association, and the Malcom Forbes Award for Business Reporting from the Overseas Press Club for the Pandora Papers.
Clean Cars, Hidden Toll
I guided long-term planning and launch strategy for a months-long series investigating the unintended consequences of the global EV boom. I led collaboration across a team of 60 journalists and I worked with lead editors to develop innovative, audience-forward approaches to to engage readers across platforms. In all, The Post published 7 stories and 3 Post Reports episodes over five months that investigated the impact of securing the minerals needed to build and power electric vehicles on local communities, workers and the environment.
The Uber Files
I led The Post’s cross-platform distribution and launch strategy for the Uber Files, an international investigation into the ride-hailing company based on more than more than 124,000 documents leaked by former top executive Mark MacGann. The project, which was led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Guardian, included 44 news organizations in 29 countries. I partnered to manage and edit a team of more than 50 Post journalists from across The Washington Post newsroom who contributed to the investigation across platforms including web, audio, video, social, newsletters and print. I worked to develop audience strategy, deepen reader engagement and shape the storytelling and visual presentation for at least 10 stories published over two days. I produced the investigation’s landing page and provided editing support across the project, including the podcast, key takeaways and social promotion.
➜ View the project here ➜ About the investigation ➜ Takeaways
The Opioid Files
I worked alongside investigative and project editors to coordinate The Post’s continuing opioids coverage. In addition to visual planning and design, I helped refine long-term coverage plans and project manage individual stories, with a goal towards providing context and organizing information in a useful way for readers. I facilitated collaboration between multiple desks for investigations into a Tasmanian ‘super poppy’ grown by a former Johnson & Johnson subsidiary and Walgreens’ role in the opioid crisis. For an analysis of how the opioid epidemic evolved, I provided editing support as we experimented with story format. To compliment the data-driven and aggressive reporting on the flood of opioids, visual desks worked together to produce a quick-turnaround multimedia project on victims of the opioid crisis in rural Virginia. I collaboratively coded the custom web and Apple News presentations with another designer. The Washington Post was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Public Service for The Opioid Files.
➜ View the projects: Tasmania | Walgreens | Analysis | Voices
Olympics
I led a cross-functional working group to scale collaboration for The Washington Post’s Tokyo and Beijing Olympics coverage alongside a partner from our product team. We benchmarked goals to support better user experience, deepen engagement and grow our audience in weekly meetings with stakeholders from the newsroom, product, engineering, subscriptions, PR and marketing. We aligned across teams on key initiatives including the live article experience, design system, medal and schedule tables and SMS digest. I helped coordinate newsroom coverage plans, documentation and article recirculation strategy and was an editor for the Beijing Olympics landing page, Les Carpenter’s video diary from Beijing, the U.S. medalists project, and the augmented reality and interactive video project, Future of the Summer Games. The Future of the Summer Games project was recognized with the Online Journalism Award for Sports coverage.
➜ View Olympics coverage: Tokyo Olympics | Beijing Olympics
➜ Future of the Summer Games project ➜ U.S. medalists project
Canary: The Washington Post Investigates
I guided our launch strategy and led a team of 25 people as the project editor for "Canary: The Washington Post Investigates,” a long-form investigative podcast. I worked to develop a strong digital presence across platforms and plan multiple phases of promotion. Our launch included a trailer, 7-episode podcast, digital landing page, accompanying news story and Q&A, accompanied by a robust social and marketing strategy. As art director, I also commissioned the illustration for our branding and designed the logo and promotional assets for the podcast. After publication, I led a project retrospective to document project successes and workflow challenges to guide planning for future cross-department projects. The investigative audio series was recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Award; a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award; and an Online Journalism Award for audio digital storytelling. Apple Podcasts also named it one of the top podcasts of 2020.
Apple News
I drove off-platform storytelling by transforming The Post’s most ambitious journalism and innovative web experiences into custom-coded story pages optimized for a mobile audience in Apple News. The Post is a leading publisher in this space and I helped set strategy, scale this initiative and push the format through continued experimentation. I guided design and platform-specific editing for some of our highest engagement stories on the platform.
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Tracking the tiger butcher
I led the design and development of an integrated storytelling experience for an investigation into the tiger trade in Laos. Working with multiple stakeholders from graphics, video and reporting teams, we combined text, photos, graphics, video and audio in a seamless presentation. We continually returned to the question – what should the reader see, hear or read this moment? I sought to replicate the content-driven, immersive storytelling across print and Apple News. Reporter Terrence McCoy and I were runners-up for The Overseas Press Club’s Kim Wall Award for creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques.
Going it alone
I collaborated with my colleague Nick Kirkpatrick to research and pitch a visually-driven project documenting how the people and communities feeding America were adapting to the unprecedented challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn. We sought to experiment with the reader experience across digital and print. Working with The Post’s Road to Recovery editor, we outlined and edited the immersive project, which integrated reporting and intimate photography. I also set our roadmap for production across platforms and publication strategy. The project received multiple awards, including for design and use of photography.
How to dress for space
I worked with a cross-department team on an immersive 3-D and augmented reality experience showcasing the evolution of spacesuit design across multiple platforms. Our team of designers, developers and editors collaboratively outlined the non-linear story format. I led design for the experience across web, Apple News and print and provided development support for the web presentation. The project was awarded a bronze medal for Story Page Design at SND’s Best of Digital Design competition.
➜ View the project here
To view the augmented reality component, follow the link using an iPhone.
The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
I designed and coded the landing page for a documentary short investigating Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination and response. I pitched and helped to compile a full timeline of events aimed at providing deeper context on how the story developed over the course of six months. My development work contributed to a more streamlined template for use on future video projects. The documentary was presented at the AFI Docs Film Festival.