Karthik Patanjali

Special Projects Editor, Graphics

Karthik Patanjali is a Special Projects Editor for Graphics at The New York Times. He focuses on shaping how journalistic stories are told using new technologies, including augmented and virtual reality, 3-D Web, machine learning and computer vision. His work has won several awards including an Emmy, multiple Online Journalism Awards, Society of News Design Awards and Malofiej. He was a part of the team that set up AR storytelling at the Times and has worked on most of the AR/webgl stories published so far. He also guides The Times’ AR initiative on Instagram.

Participating Sessions

AUGMENTED REALITY AND THE NEW FRONTIERS OF JOURNALISM

Technology is creating new forms of experiencing stories with the power to change how we see and understand news. Through experiments in augmented reality, people can view a place or a story superimposed with layers of historical context, immerse themselves in an environment or situation, or graft a faraway scene onto their own living rooms. Is this the future of journalism or a byway, and what are the implications of...