Lena Groeger is an American investigative journalist, graphic designer and news application developer at ProPublica.
[7] Groeger now lives in San Francisco and produces graphic-aided and data-oriented investigations on topics including immigration, elections, and drones.
Her writings and visualizations have been cited in many major news outlets such as The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate magazine, and The New Yorker.
She is also credited with multiple projects that aggregate, update, analyze, and communicate large datasets from public sources in a way that guarantees the accessibility, readability, and timeliness of the data presented.
The projects to which she has made development contributions vary in topics, but the recurring themes are business, elections, and health information: the New York State Subsidy Tracker and the "Tax Avoidance Has a Heartbeat" program tracks corporate behavior; the "Election DataBot" performs near-real-time scraps from sources including Google search trends, news articles, and press releases by and about Congress members; the "Treatment Tracker" and "Prescriber Checkup" allows users to access information on Medicare health providers by searching for providers, zip codes, or cities.
[17] She was also named finalist in the "Excellence in Local Reporting" category of the 2017 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists for her co-authorship the news application, "Tracking Evictions and Rent Stabilization in NYC" that Groeger and three of her colleagues at ProPublica produced in 2016.