Teo Popescu
Design, Graphics, and Data Editor
About
Teo is the KUOW newsroom's design, graphics, and data editor. She manages all data visualizations, graphics, illustrations, and news video stories for kuow.org and Instagram. She also leads design and development for KUOW’s interactive feature stories, specializing in visualizing complex bureaucratic processes and budgets. She co-hosts Control F with Clare McGrane.
Teo came to KUOW in 2018 as the first in-house design lead at the station. She created the newsroom's graphics standards and style. In a previous era, she was a state political correspondent for PubliCola and the print editor of Nightingale, the magazine of the Data Visualization Society. Her work has appeared on PubliCola, KUOW, ProPublica, NPR, and the HBO show Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas. Outside of work, Teo likes spending time teaching graphic journalism courses at the University of Washington and UC Berkeley, or making mediocre furniture — the latter is still a work in progress.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, Romanian
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Associations: Board Member, Society of Professional Journalists of Western Washington; Editor, Data Visualization Society
Podcasts
Stories
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Washington voters agree — tax the wealthy
The election dust has settled in Washington state and for the first time in over a decade residents have overwhelmingly voted in favor of taxing the wealthy.
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How to find warmth, electricity, and other storm resources in the Seattle area
This is a developing list of available warming shelters, charging stations, and other resources as windstorms move through the Seattle area leaving thousands without power.
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Under the bridge: Seattle's renegade raves
Somewhere hidden deep in the snarl of train tracks and warehouses of Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood, there's live music that makes the ground shake. Tucked beneath a bridge is the dusty, gravel lot music lovers whisper about online.
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What do Democratic, Republican, and Independent Washington state voters think about the 2024 ballot?
After months of hearing from the candidates and the positions for and against initiatives, Washington state voters get to have their say in the November General Election.
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How city leaders want to patch Seattle's $250 million budget deficit
Seattle leaders have known for years the revenue base for the city’s general fund – largely reliant on regressive tax sources – can’t keep up with increasing costs and demand for services.
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Off the Charts: More people are returning to the office. Is Seattle traffic about to get worse?
Seattle's population has increased by over 15,000 residents since the start of the pandemic, while average commute times have gone down slightly from 28.4 minutes to 25.5 minutes—due in no small part to work-from-home policies.
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Off the Charts: Kamala's 'brat summer' sparked wave of fresh donors in Washington state
Vice President Kamala Harris made serious waves with a whole new group of Washingtonians this summer—garnering close to $1 million dollars in individual contributions on her first day. Nearly half of that cash came from Washingtonians who hadn't contributed to the Democratic ticket all year, according to newly released data from the Federal Election Commission.
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Off the Charts: Which is louder, the Blue Angels or your headphones?
This weekend Seattle is celebrating Seafair—and that means the Blue Angels will be flying overhead, sparking the yearly debate about noise pollution. Just how loud are the Blue Angels?
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The Gotta-go-Joe to Pro-Joe meter: Washington state edition
Politicians and political donors spoke up last week about whether they believe President Joe Biden should stay in the race.
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Off the Charts: Hosting a (small) Fourth of July barbecue could set you back almost $200 this year
KUOW pulled prices for various barbecue staples from four grocery stores within city limits (two Safeways and two QFCs) and averaged them together to get a better sense of barbecue costs this summer.