Education Leaders Program / Geoff McGhee
Geoff McGhee
Palo Alto, California
School affiliations
"A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures."
— Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Geoff McGhee is creative director of media and communications for the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, where he designs infographics, data visualizations, and multimedia to aid in teaching and scholarship.
McGhee received his bachelor's degree from Connecticut College and his master's from Columbia University. He started his journalism career in 1999 as an interactive designer at ABCNews.com. In 2000, he joined NYTimes.com, the web edition of The New York Times, as graphics editor. He became enterprise editor in 2002, collaborating with the Times' print newsroom on special projects and multimedia. In 2004, he was a part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for an investigation of worker deaths and injuries at a pipe foundry.
McGhee became a video journalist in 2006, shooting, reporting, and editing stories for NYTimes.com. In 2008, he moved to Paris to join LeMonde as the multimedia editor for its online publication. He has won numerous online journalism awards from the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, the National Press Photographers' Association, Pictures of the Year International, Editor and Publisher, and Communication Arts.