David Kofahl is the former Director of Interactives at The New Yorker. His award-winning, multidisciplinary approach to visual storytelling spans interactive media, design, and engineering.
2025
2024
Cleared by Fire
The New Yorker
An immersive interactive documentary from In the Dark examines differing narratives about the killing of twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, on November 19, 2005.
- ASME Award, Best Illustrated Stories, Finalist, 2025
The War Crimes That the Military Buried
The New Yorker
The largest known database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.
What SCOTUS Has to Decide About Trump and Disqualification
The New Yorker
The Justices are about to consider whether Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment is enough to keep the former President off the ballot.
2023
Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love”
The New Yorker
Wong Kar Wai’s 2000 masterwork has influenced filmmakers ranging from Barry Jenkins to Sofia Coppola—and innumerable teens on TikTok.
- ASME, Best Digital Design, Winner, 2024
Christoph Niemann’s “Create Your Own Cover with Till-E”
The New Yorker
The artist arches an eyebrow at our robot overlords.
A Security Camera for the Planet
The New Yorker
A new satellite, funded by a nonprofit, aims to pinpoint emissions of methane—a gas that plays a major role in global warming.
Masha Titova’s “The Art of Music”
The New Yorker
The magazine publishes its first synesthetic, collaborative, and interactive cover.
The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat
The New Yorker
China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.
2022
A Vast Experiment
The New Yorker
The climate crisis from A to Z.
The Costs of War
The New Yorker
The costs of an onslaught in Bucha, Kharkiv, Irpin, and elsewhere.
When Cars Kill
The New Yorker
A boy’s death launches a movement to end pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in New York City and beyond.
Parenting Advice I Was Given and Didn’t Take
The New Yorker
And some advice I can’t resist giving you (that will not be particularly useful to you).
The Cartoons & Puzzles Issue
The New Yorker
Gather ’round the hearth and let the games, goofs, and gags begin!
- Society of Publication Designers, Web: Custom Feature Design, Gold, 2022
2021
Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State
The New Yorker
Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation.
- Emmy Award, Outstanding Interactive Media, Winner, 2022
- Peabody Award, Immersive & Interactive, Winner, 2022
- Online Journalism Awards, Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling, Winner, 2021
- Society of Publication Designers, Video: Innovative Technology, Gold, 2021
Reeducated
The New Yorker
Inside Xinjiang’s Secret Detention Camps.
- Peabody Award, Immersive & Interactive, Winner, 2022
Getting the Shot
The New Yorker
What vaccination means to New Yorkers.
The Art of the Hollywood Memoir
The New Yorker
Accounts of life in Tinseltown reveal as much as they seek to hide.
The Invisible Wall
The New Yorker
Inside the secretive Libyan prisons that keep migrants out of Europe.
- Online Journalism Awards, Innovation in Investigative Journalism, Winner, 2022
2020
The Great Fire
Vanity Fair
Ta-Nehisi Coates guest-edits a special project about Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
- Society of Publication Designers, Special Category, Silver, 2020
Fire Oceans, Five Deeps
The New Yorker
The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.
2019
The Ice Stupas
The New Yorker
Artificial glaciers at the edge of the Himalayas.
Twenty Years After Columbine
The New Yorker
Physicians speak out about treating the victims of mass shootings.
Easy Targets
The New Yorker
Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun-store thefts to crime scenes.
2018
2017
Finding Home, Heln’s First Year
TIME
Taimaa and her husband Mohannad are seeking asylum in Europe. TIME was there for the birth of their baby Heln. This is their story.
- Emmy, Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary, Nominee, 2018
- World Press Photo, Innovative Storytelling, First Prize, 2018
- RTDNA National Murrow Award, Excellence in Innovation, Winner, 2018
- Pictures of the Year International, Online Feature Story Visual Editing, First Place, 2017
The Opioid Diaries
TIME
Behind the lives and stories of a national crisis
- Deadline Club Journalism Awards, Feature Photo, Winner, 2019
Firsts
TIME
Women Who Are Changing the World.
- Society of Publication Designers, Feature Video: Celebrity, Gold, 2018
- Pictures of the Year International, Documentary Project of the Year, First Place, 2017
- American Film Showcase, Official Selection, 2017
Person of the Year, 2017
TIME
The Silence Breakers who spoke out against sexual assault and harassment.
- Livingston Award, Finalist, 2018
- Webby, People’s Choice Award, Video: News & Politics, Winner, 2018
- Society of Publication Designers, Feature Video: News/Documentary, Merit, 2018