When a refinery exploded in Louisiana, The Guardian transformed thousands of documents, 911 calls, and data points into an award-winning, visually rich investigation that exposed the true scale of the disaster.
In this behind-the-scenes conversation, The Guardian’s Southern Bureau Chief, Oliver Laughland joins moderator Ricky Sutton and Flourish’s Nicole Kunkel to unpack the challenges of reporting such a complex story, why visual storytelling was essential to exposing the truth and a few practical ways newsrooms can experiment with data storytelling in their own work.
