About

Moiz Syed is a designer, developer and data journalist based in New York City. He works for Mozilla as a lead product designer for Pocket. Previously he worked at ProPublica, The Intercept, Wikimedia Foundation and Hipmunk.

CV

Work Experience

  1. Mozilla
    New York, NY
    Product Design Lead, Pocket
    2021 - Present
  2. ProPublica
    New York, NY
    News Apps Developer
    2019 – 2021
  3. The Intercept
    New York, NY
    Data Journalist & Designer
    2016 – 2019
  4. Wikimedia Foundation
    San Francisco, CA
    Design Manager
    2013 – 2016
  5. Hipmunk
    San Francisco, CA
    Product Designer
    2012 – 2013
  6. Drawbridge
    San Mateo, CA
    User Experience Designer
    2011 – 2012
  7. Citrix Systems
    Santa Clara, CA
    Product Designer
    2010 – 2011
  8. IBM Canada
    Vancouver, BC
    Interactive Media Designer
    2009 – 2009

Teaching

  1. Data Skills for Social Journalism
    City University of New York
    New York, NY
    2020
  2. Python workshop, Intermediate
    NICAR
    Chicago, IL
    2018
  3. Intro to Programming for Journalists
    City University of New York
    New York, NY
    2016

Speaking / Facilitating

  1. Objectivity, privilege and how we report on protests
    SRCCON
    Remote
    2020
  2. How to be a better ally
    NICAR
    New Orleans, LA
    2020
  3. How to make charts less bad
    NICAR
    New Orleans, LA
    2020
  4. Being scrappy: Doing data journalism as a team of one
    NICAR
    Newport Beach, CA
    2019
  5. Unionize! Part two!
    SRCCON
    Minneapolis, MN
    2018
  6. Unionize! Pros and cons of being in a union and how to unionize your newsroom
    SRCCON
    Minneapolis, MN
    2017
  7. Data and Abuse of Power
    CSV Conf
    Portland, OR
    2017
  8. Data and Abuse of Power
    NICAR
    Jacksonville, FL
    2017
  9. Design for Data Journalism: What to do, and what not to do
    NICAR
    Atlanta, GA
    2015

Recent Awards

  1. Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting
    John Jay College / Harry Frank Guggenheim
    2021
  2. Bronze Medal for Line of Coverage, Public Service
    Society of News Design
    2020
  3. Award of Excellence for Individual Portfolio, Infographics
    Society of News Design
    2020
  4. Award of Excellence for Line of Coverage, Public Service
    Society of News Design
    2020
  5. Award of Excellence for Use of Data
    Society of News Design
    2020
  6. Award of Excellence for Infographics, National
    Society of News Design
    2020
  7. Web or Interactive Project, First Place
    National Headliner Award
    2018
  8. Investigative Data Journalism Award
    Online News Association / University of Florida
    2017

Education

  1. Bachelor of Design (Hon.)
    Information & Interaction Design
    York University
    2004 — 2008
  2. Additional Coursework
    Computer Science & Psychology
    University of Toronto
    2008 – 2010