Lab for Engineering and Design in Editorial
Lede Lab is The Post’s experimental news team dedicated to exploring emerging technologies, new storytelling techniques and creative partnerships that help The Post serve its growing global audience. Learn more about our recent work and get in touch below.
Featured Work
Reconstructing seven days of protests in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death
Hundreds of hours of social media live streams present a different and more complicated view of what was happening in Minneapolis.
Reconstructing seven days of protests in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death
Hundreds of hours of social media live streams present a different and more complicated view of what was happening in Minneapolis.
How to dress for space
Explore five iconic spacesuits in 3-D and more than 50 years of spaceflight in a dialogue between The Washington Post’s space industry reporter Christian Davenport and fashion critic Robin Givhan.
How to dress for space
Explore five iconic spacesuits in 3-D and more than 50 years of spaceflight in a dialogue between The Washington Post’s space industry reporter Christian Davenport and fashion critic Robin Givhan.
12 seconds of gunfire: The true story of a school shooting
A powerful virtual reality experience produced by The Washington Post, based on an unforgettable front-page article by 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist John Woodrow Cox.
12 seconds of gunfire: The true story of a school shooting
A powerful virtual reality experience produced by The Washington Post, based on an unforgettable front-page article by 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist John Woodrow Cox.
Sonoma’s vaunted wineries embrace online sales, budget pricing to woo pandemic drinkers
For years, the industry relied on foot traffic from millions of tourists to keep their doors open. The coronavirus has forced them to find a new way.
Sonoma’s vaunted wineries embrace online sales, budget pricing to woo pandemic drinkers
For years, the industry relied on foot traffic from millions of tourists to keep their doors open. The coronavirus has forced them to find a new way.
Heliograf 3.0: AI-powered local audio election updates
Lede Lab created Claire, a customized AI presenter, to voice hundreds of ongoing House, Senate and presidential election result updates, personalized to each podcast listener's state, as results were counted, disputed and challenged across the country in the 2020 presidential election.
Heliograf 3.0: AI-powered local audio election updates
Lede Lab created Claire, a customized AI presenter, to voice hundreds of ongoing House, Senate and presidential election result updates, personalized to each podcast listener's state, as results were counted, disputed and challenged across the country in the 2020 presidential election.
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More Projects
Practice makes perfect: Carve this virtual turkey
Learn how to carve this year’s Thanksgiving bird with this step-by-step guide using augmented reality.
The Smithsonian saved a statue Lincoln praised. Now you can judge it for yourself.
Using a technique called photogrammetry, The Washington Post created a digital reconstruction of a famous Civil War-era artwork.
A new concert hall in Hamburg transforms the city
Bring one of its most alluring features, 10,000 unique acoustic panels, into your room with this augmented reality story.