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Everything You Want to Know About Boeing’s 737 Max 8 Anti-Stall System
This is a straightforward look at the anti-stall safety system aboard Boeing’s 737 Max 8 commercial aircraft. This ran March 14, 2019, as part of our coverage of the Ethiopian Airline crash in which 157 people died. The Max 8 jet … Continue reading
Yes, a Story About Dogs Being Killed for Food is Difficult to Write and Will Break Your Heart
This longform graphic, another volunteer effort of mine, seeks to concisely explain the history of dog farms and dog consumption in South Korea, and why it’s on the wane. It accompanies a March 6, 2019, story by Thomas Maresca, a … Continue reading
Horning in on a White Rhino Story
I volunteered to do this longform explainer graphic on white rhinos after overhearing staff at the Nashville Tennessean talk about the pending arrival of a new white rhinoceros at the Nashville Zoo. I asked Duane Gang, a Tennessean content editor … Continue reading
Why Mavericks Waves are So Deadly
This longform graphic explains why the waves at Mavericks — a surfing location for fanatics on the California coast — are so high and so deadly. Putting this together required a substantial amount of research, including translating bathymetric1 terminology not … Continue reading
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Personal Data in Plain English
This was a primer I did on the collection and use of personal data. The explainer uses a simple step-by-step explanation describing your private information, how it’s collected, who’s using it, and how you can be affected. A link to … Continue reading
Looking Back at Tet
My first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was — fittingly — at night. I came with a few colleagues; we ended up drifting away from one another as the black wall drew us in. I was … Continue reading
Vietnam War Through Time
This was a center-spread page I designed for a USA Today tabloid published in tandem with the release of “The Vietnam War,” the PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Florentine Films, Burns’ production company, supplied the text and … Continue reading
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Charles Lindbergh’s Epic Flight
This piece on Charles Lindbergh’s New York-to-Paris flight in 1927 is one of my favorite projects. I researched and wrote this, collected most of the artwork, and designed both the print page and the online presentation. In history-related articles like … Continue reading
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Scary But True
This simple graphic compares the amount of horsepower offered by the new Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and its predecessors, the iconic muscle cars of American automotive legends. I did this as a Social card, a 2,000-pixel-square graphic that’s posted on … Continue reading
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The War to End All Wars
The history of World War I — how it started and how the U.S. was drawn into it — was splashed across this double-page inside a USA Today special publication. I did all the research, found the artwork, wrote and … Continue reading
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George Petras: Graphics and Story Portfolio 