John Osborn D’Agostino is the Data and Interactives Editor at CalMatters.
John is passionate about experimenting with different ways to tell digital stories. In particular, he enjoys telling stories with game mechanics: he spearheaded “Gimme Props“, an interactive that allows users to explore how they may want to vote on certain ballot measures, designed and developed a game that allows prospective students to explore the complexities of financing college, and allowed users to explore how they would spend California’s record surplus in 2022.
John also heads up major data-driven projects, some of which have won awards, including a dashboard utilizing water data that explores many of the complexities and challenges California faces when managing drought and wet years. He also helped launch a similar-spirited dashboard exploring wildfires across the state, helping to contextualize how wildfires have impacted the state.
Previously, John worked with The Hechinger Report, EdSource, the East Bay Express, Berkeleyside, and the North Coast Journal. He graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
