Josh Katz (journalist)

Josh Katz is an American journalist and graphics editor at The New York Times. He is perhaps best known for the dialect quiz he created, which was published in the New York Times[1] and which led to him writing the book Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse , and You Guys Talk.[2] Katz currently lives in Brooklyn.

Early life and education

Katz studied philosophy and political science at Drew University then went on to obtain his masters degree in statistics from NC State and then joined The New York Times in 2013. [3] He has written numerous articles for The New York Times where he covers sports, politics, and culture for The Upshot. The Upshot is a website published by The New York Times which combines data visualization with conventional journalistic analysis of news. [4]

Works

Katz's best known work came as an intern at The New York Times in 2013 when he created their most popular piece of content that year.[5] The piece is called How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk in which Katz used data provided by Harvard researchers mixed with statistics and an algorithm.[5]

His other well known work came three years later, and is a book-length extrapolation of the piece, called Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide.[2] The book takes questions from over 350,000 unique survey responses about pronunciation and word choice to be able to map out where people live geographically in America depending on how they speak.[1][5] Attached here is a link to view the slideshow of Katz's visual maps. [6]

Katz has continued to articles per year in The Upshot. His works include:

  • A Close-Up Picture of Partisan Segregation, Among 180 Million Voters
  • Which Families Will Receive the Most Money From the Stimulus Bill
  • 574,000 More U.S. Deaths Than Normal Since Covid-19 Struck
  • 2020 N.F.L Playoff Picture for Week 17: Mapping All the Scenarios
  • A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S.
  • In Shadow of Pandemic, U.S. Drug Overdoes Deaths Resurge to Record.

Katz covers topics such as culture, politics, and sports for The Upshot at The New York Times. All of these articles are part conventional journalism, part data visualization.

References
  1. Katz, Josh; Andrews, Wilson (2013-12-21). "How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  2. Katz, Josh (2016). Speaking American : how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide. Boston. ISBN 978-0-544-70339-1. OCLC 932050666.
  3. "Josh Katz - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  4. McDuling, John. ""The Upshot" is the New York Times' replacement for Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight". Quartz. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  5. Graff, Ryan. "Behind the dialect map interactive: How an intern created The New York Times' most popular piece of content in 2013". Northwestern University Knight Lab. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  6. Kleinman, Alexis (2013-06-06). "LOOK: These Maps Debating 'Soda' And 'Pop' Have Basically Set The Internet On Fire". HuffPost. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
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