Aleszu Bajak, CSH Journalist in Residence, Cleveland, Ohio

Aleszu Bajak is our second COSY Journalist in Residence.

Aleszu is a senior data reporter at USA TODAY, part of the newspaper’s national investigative unit. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, M.I.T. Technology Review and Nature.

Before USA TODAY, he spent several years teaching and managing the graduate programs at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism where he launched Storybench.org, an under the hood guide to digital and data storytelling.

During his stay at the Hub, Aleszu will develop, select, and apply the most appropriate data science methods and social science questions to a self-collected dataset from US 2022 election candidate messaging.