Júlia Ledur

Washington, D.C.

Graphics reporter covering foreign news

Education: Columbia University, The Lede Program, certificate in data journalism; Universidade Federal do Paraná, BA in journalism

Júlia Ledur is a graphics reporter covering foreign news at The Washington Post. Before joining The Post in 2021, she worked as a graphics editor at the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, where she led the data visualization team. Previously, she was on the graphics team at Reuters, covering Latin American politics, the environment and social issues with data and visuals. Before moving to the United States from her native Brazil, Ledur worked as a food reporter at the Brazilian newspaper Gazeta do Povo.
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Latest from Júlia Ledur

Visualizing the record-breaking rain in Fort Lauderdale

More than 9 inches of rain fell over the city in a 12-hour period, flooding streets and stranding residents.

April 13, 2023

    There have been 146 mass shootings so far this year

    Not a single week has passed without a mass shooting.

    April 10, 2023

    A web of trenches shows Russia fears losing Crimea

    Satellite imagery provided to The Post by Maxar shows that Russia has recently built dozens of trenches across Crimea, which it illegally annexed in 2014.

    April 3, 2023

      The ‘barbed-wire curtain’ dividing Europe from Russia and Belarus, visualized

      If construction happens as expected, Europe’s “barbed-wire curtain” will span almost 1,000 miles by 2026, about a third longer than the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

      March 15, 2023

      Follow the 600-mile front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces

      Over the last year, the war has morphed from a multi-front invasion to a conflict of attrition largely concentrated along a 600-mile stretch in the east and south.

      February 21, 2023

        How the earthquake in Turkey and Syria compares with other deadly tremors

        Monday's earthquake is the most powerful to hit Turkey since 1939. It's also the most deadly.

        February 10, 2023

          See the earthquake’s total devastation through before and after images

          Thousands of buildings in Turkey and Syria collapsed in minutes, killing and trapping the people inside. Lively neighborhoods were reduced to dust.

          February 7, 2023

          We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme cold could wreck cities

          See how frigid temperatures and heavy snow can wreak havoc on everything from a city's hospitals and power grid to its rail and air transportation.

          January 25, 2023

            There have been more than 600 mass shootings since January 2022

            There hasn't been a single week without a mass shooting.

            January 23, 2023

            What Russia has gained and lost so far in Ukraine, visualized

            Russia hasn’t gained more than 1,000 square miles in a week since April. See how Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine has changed throughout the war.

            November 21, 2022