Yuri Victor, Senior UX Designer at Vox.Com, was at The Poynter Institute to give a TedX talk about creating efficient newsrooms. After his talk, he answered questions about how he got into journalism and what it means to him.
Video: Vox’s Yuri Victor started out in economics, ‘got drunk and became a journalist’
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