Will Careri served Nightingale as Managing Editor between 2024 – 2026, after holding roles as a contributing writer and member of the core editorial team beginning in 2022. As a writer, he published two of the most-read articles on Nightingale in “Designing for Neurodivergent Audiences” and “The Visual Evolution of the Tommy Westphall Universe.” As Managing Editor, he worked with nearly 150 contributors to produce more than 200 articles. Additionally, throughout his time with the publication, he assisted in the development of three print issues of Nightingale—”Guidelines,” “Emotion,” and “Nature.”

While Will is stepping down from his day-to-day role of Managing Editor, he looks forward to continue being an active editor and contributor in new and similar capacities.

Teo Popescu is no stranger to Nightingale, serving as the Content Editor from 2024 – 2025, primarily responsible for bringing the print edition to life, particularly “Issue 5: Nature.”

Outside of her work with Nightingale, she is the design, graphics and data editor at KUOW Public Radio, Seattle’s local NPR station. Her work includes running KUOW’s Trump legal tracker for the first three months of the administration, visualizing ICE arrest data in Washington state, and contributing to a joint story with ProPublica on Seattle’s potential misuse of shelter funds. Additionally, she teaches multimedia and graphics journalism at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington.

While stepping into the Managing Editor role marks her return to Nightingale, she has spent the past year focusing on launching her new data journalism podcast, “Control F“, where her and her co-host dig deep on a topic and search through research, algorithms, and assumptions to bring listeners insights on how stuff works using data and visualizations.

I’m excited to come back to the Nightingale community. It’s an honor to come back in this way—to take up the mantle Will leaves behind. I’m excited to get to know everyone better and continue to foster a sense of community. I hope that with every article we publish, the love for our craft is evident on the page. It’s what keeps me coming back, and I hope it helps sustain you in these times, too. 

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If you happened to tune into our Fireside Chat you might remember hearing our publications director, Jason Forrest, mention that we saved cover design until the rest of the magazine was complete. We started out thinking that we wanted to use the cover as a collage of the wonderful visualizations within. As it turned out, that was harder than we thought. Our central challenge was how to select from among all the amazing work inside. We decided that making that kind of choice was in opposition to our desire to celebrate the community as a whole. Luckily, Julie had some other tricks up her sleeve!

The entire magazine is chock full of fun fonts. For one alternate cover concept, Julie showcased one of the coolest fonts alongside a list of all the magazine’s contributors. In this concept, she also tried out a range of masthead treatments. Initially, we were partial to the vertical treatment, but once we saw the option on the right (below), we changed our minds.

The next series of designs prioritized both the launch messaging and the issue’s editorial theme of “culture.” By now, we were all drawn in the direction of a clever illustration. Note the subtle, but significant, difference in the two horizontal masthead treatments. The one in the middle is just a little bit cleaner—that’s what we preferred.

We knew we wanted to produce a visualization of the magazine itself (a meta viz!), but due to time and resource constraints, we didn’t collect data systematically throughout the publication process. The egg chart was meant to represent the magazine’s launch, but the hard-boiled version didn’t quite land. And, eventually, Julie designed three different visualizations for inside the magazine, so we didn’t need the cover to fulfill that function.

When we saw the last concept, we all knew it was the one. It perfectly communicated hatching and dataviz in a simple and clever way that made us all smile; plus, Julie was able to tie in the chick reference with a small image on the magazine’s spine. We conducted several quick surveys with folks in our immediate circles and the results were unanimous: this was the one!

During the many months of magazine production, the editorial team met every Wednesday morning (for Jason, Mary, and Claire) and evening (for Julie) to review the page designs that Julie had completed that week. These meetings were our absolute favorite part of the publication process, and we look forward to them in anticipation of Issue 2! Hopefully, this article gave you a little peak into what fun we had whenever we got to review Julie’s delightful interpretations!

And, if you haven’t ordered your copy of Issue 1 yet, you can still get yours while supplies last.

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There are many reasons why you’d want to sign up on Day One, but the most obvious is you want to support our community and you believe in our mission here at Nightingale! After all, we’ve published over 600 articles and introduced over 100 first-time writers. We’ve published on every aspect of dataviz that we can think of—and so many that we never would have thought of previously.

But today is also the first day of an ambitious effort to secure 1,000 subscribers by November 15th! Our goal has always been to make Nightingale a self-sustaining publication that will live on for many years and support subsequent generations of dataviz practitioners. If—WHEN—we reach our goal of 1,000 subscribers, we will have enough to build out our staff and ensure a foundation to sustain our digital and print formats. We know it’s possible, but we need your help!

Lastly, many folks have asked us about advertising, and yes, we will be offering advertisement space. Revenue from ad sales will help us pay everyone who works on the magazine as well as launch new mentorship programs for first-time publishers. We feature many advertising options and our prices have been configured to work for the smallest single-person companies up to the biggest corporations. Just get in touch and let’s have a conversation!

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