CBS News graphics rig

I built the graphics rig that CBS News used to publish interactive stories. The data team had big stories it wanted to highlight and graphics reporters with the frontend skills to build them, but no means of quickly getting an interactive onto the site without requiring significant custom deployment work from the engineering team. I built a simple solution that fit into existing git workflows and enabled the team to publish dozens of ambitious stories on their own.

The "rig" is simple: a GitHub Actions pipeline that runs on a single graphics monorepo. A journalist develops a new interactive in the monorepo, and the pipeline takes care of building and deploying it. Users can deploy internal-only previews off of git branches before merging, allowing iterative development that can be shared with non-technical staff for review. I also wrote a Svelte component library to use in projects published on the rig, so components don't need to be rebuilt from scratch each time, and site-wide design changes can be easily applied to previously-published stories.

Every story published to cbsnews.com/projects was created with this rig; here are a few recent examples:

• Afghan girls who study in secret want you to read their "letters to the world"
• Unmade beds and overdue books: Photographing the rooms of kids killed in school shootings
• Explore Trump's 3,600 stock trades from the first 3 months of 2026
• This weight-loss drug hasn't been approved by the FDA. Doctors are prescribing it anyway.
• "Who do we hand the baby to?" Loopholes and shady practices taint U.S. surrogacy industry
• How much water does AI really use?
• Essential American Songbook
• How dangerous trucking companies escape their past, change names and get back on the road.