Kaeti Hinck is the Executive Editor for Data and Visuals at CNN Digital. She oversees the global team that creates essential photography, data reporting and visualizations, interactive storytelling, illustrations and motion design. Kaeti joined CNN in 2019 as the Director of Visual News and built a team focused on data and visual-driven journalism. That team has led and collaborated on distinctive reporting about race and ethnicity in the United States, inequity in Covid-19 vaccine distribution, critical climate crises, and how readers can interpret sensational data headlines.

Before joining CNN, Kaeti was a Nieman fellow at Harvard, exploring how technology and platform design can manipulate behavior and impact well being. Before that she led a Pulitzer-winning team at The Washington Post focused on visual and data-driven journalism. Previously, Kaeti was a leader in nonprofit media, working in roles spanning editorial, product, technology and design.

Kaeti is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a degree in journalism and religion. She lives in DC with her partner Raph and puppy Rilo.