We edited 100+ vids to bring this together. Still amazed by these delightful people who let us into their lives and by my beyond talented colleagues
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Kate LaRue
@kate_larue
Digital Art Director The New York Times Magazine. A little more present over on my Instagram feed - 
New York + TorontoJoined June 2010
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Each December, dedicates an issue of the magazine to remembrances of notable people who have died during the year. It is called The Lives They Lived.
This year, we have dedicated the issue to 12 American kids who were killed by guns in 2022.
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.@'s day job is on The Times’ Visual Investigations unit, which usually involves things like analyzing footage of the Capitol Riots. But could he use these same skills to find his great-grandfather’s house in a tiny village in Italy?
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Fun working with again! Kudos to and the rest of the mag art dept for bringing this together. Digital out now, print out soon.
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“We know what put us in this predicament: more than one trillion tons of carbon produced by human activity now suspended in our atmosphere. That’s as much as the total mass of every human-built structure and object on earth.”
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For our Money Issue, we asked 6 families to tell us everything about what they spent over a month and let us inside their homes to photograph it all. I find what resulted so intimate, fascinating, beautiful. Here it is, in their own words.
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19 songs that matter right now.
Our 2021 Music Issue is here: nyti.ms/3qAPaAR
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You probably have questions about the ballot you mailed. Did a letter carrier just drive it to the elections office? What about the headlines about delays? These intimate photos from show what it's been like on the inside. Also, I wrote words.
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Humans have lived in the same temperature and precipitation "niche" for thousands of years. But it's on the move. , and I mapped it, along with new humidity, sea level rise, ag yield and wildfire data to show the US' climate future
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America's climate crisis is here. And it will change how — and where — people live. Supported by , and mapped out how climate change will displace millions of Americans.
Read part two of our series on climate migration:
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As the planet heats and crops fail, millions of people will be forced to choose between flight or death.
New research suggests that climate change will cause humans to move at an unprecedented scale.
And for many, this great migration has already begun.
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When the #1619Project came out almost a year ago, I stood in tearful applause for the profound offering that it was giving our culture and nation. Today, I am honored to be a part of ’ vision to bring her transformative work to a global audience. Stay tuned, y’all! twitter.com/nhannahjones/s
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29 authors. 29 short stories. An entire issue with all new fiction
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My latest visual essay for the Magazine:
on the humbling struggle to learn to play classical piano — and why it's still a great source of happiness.
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“Black Americans have also been, and continue to be, foundational to the idea of American freedom.”
Congratulations to , whose #1619 Project essay has won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
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For next , Andrea Frazzetta shot portraits of docs & nurses around Milan after their shifts. While he was working on the project, Andrea's parents fell ill, & his mother died. Our hearts are with him & his family, & the brave people in these photos
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After months of drawing and (re-)writing my new visual essay about the state of Europe is live. This time: a trip to Estonia, with Basketball, mummies and why "normal & boring" is the new sexy. I hope you enjoy it: nytimes.com/interactive/20
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I’m thrilled to announce an important promotion in the art department. is the magazine’s new art director! 👏👏👏
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Our annual Great Performers Issue is here. Here are the best actors of 2019: nyti.ms/38rz8kM
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„How Does the Human Soul Survive Atrocity?
After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis — many of them children — are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.„
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“What the hell is going on in Europe?”
That’s what my editors at the Magazine asked. I figured the best place to begin to find out was London.
My visual essay on Brexit, De Gaulle, Holbein, Henry VIII and local politics:
nytimes.com/interactive/20
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We're trying something new! Video election updates.
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Remarkable how *little* discussion there's been about Clinton becoming the first woman nominee of a major party --> 53eig.ht/2aukfEI
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That time we linked cabbage and innies to show what's wrong with many nutrition studies: fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-c
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Congratulations to Justin Trudeau, this year's Defender of Data (elected official edition).
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Wherein a Canadian millionaire treats women like baby factories: 53eig.ht/1NmM61a
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The band Faces were called Small Faces, before two tall people joined the group. Change is sometimes just that easy ... #oohlala
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First month of American health insurance on the left. Entire life's worth of Canadian on the right.
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In Canada, we also have crowdfunding for medical procedures. We call it "taxation."
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LaRue-ian (adj.): lacking in coherence, generous in lyrical abstractionism.
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Hello ! Wish I could take cred but it was all the handiwork of our guest ed. . Glad you're liking foraged, though!
Oddly moved by the fact that magic, taxonomy and overestimating the objectivity of thought are human universals: tinyurl.com/3pvx4jx.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; it's the only thing that ever has -MMead
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