Troy Thibodeaux is editor for newsroom innovation at the Associated Press. Based in New Orleans, Troy works with reporters and editors, designers and developers throughout AP to tell visual and textual stories with data. Before joining AP, he worked at the intersection of technology and the newsroom for Advance Internet, where he was part of the team that produced coverage of Hurricane Katrina for Nola.com and the Times Picayune, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting and Public Service. In past lives, he has been a magazine editor, travel writer and English teacher.