Hey, I'm one of the graphics journalists/authors on the piece
This is not very helpful, but the answers to most of your questions is "it depends"
Our team is made up of reporters, designers, and graphics journalists, but the specific makeup of the team on a given project or who else gets drawn into it varies a lot depending on the topic/scope of the story
For our stories, always lot of React and headache-inducing CSS transition stuff, but the tools/libraries beyond that depend a lot on the needs of the project
This is not very helpful, but the answers to most of your questions is "it depends"
Our team is made up of reporters, designers, and graphics journalists, but the specific makeup of the team on a given project or who else gets drawn into it varies a lot depending on the topic/scope of the story
For our stories, always lot of React and headache-inducing CSS transition stuff, but the tools/libraries beyond that depend a lot on the needs of the project
- On some stories, there's a lot of blender/threejs work, like this one on quantum computing: https://ig.ft.com/quantum-computing/
- For others, like this one, there's a lot of mapping/data work: https://ig.ft.com/ukraine-war-food-insecurity/
Some stories take a couple of weeks, some take a couple of months and feature fairly large codebases with 500+ commits