I work on the graphics desk at The New York Times.
There are about 35 of us. We all come from different places and backgrounds, but at our core we're all reporters — gathering information, interviewing sources and figuring out the best visual form to represent it. There are coders, mappers, illustrators, designers, animators, statisticans, chartmakers, 3d modelers.
What do I mean by that?
Well, how about a story like this that shows you a country's collective reaction.