Henrik Pettersson - Senior Editor, CNN Digital Data & Graphics
Henrik Pettersson
Senior Editor, CNN Digital Data & Graphics
Henrik Pettersson is a senior visual editor for CNN Digital's Data and Graphics team. Based in London, he helps lead a team of designers and data journalists focused on visual coverage of everything from breaking news events to politics, climate, mental health and features.
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Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
Nov 23, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has moved swiftly to announce his selections for his next Cabinet and key administration posts. See which people he has named through official statements.
MAP: Track the air quality across the US
May 13, 2024
This map, which updates every 30 minutes, shows the air quality in your area.
Visualizing the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse
Mar 28, 2024
CNN visualizes how a cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, leading to its collapse, with maps and illustrations.
Ukraine aid: Where the money is coming from, in 4 charts
Mar 20, 2024
CNN analyzed how international assistance to Ukraine stacks up.
Visualizing the Israel-Hamas war
Dec 1, 2023
As fighting intensifies across Gaza and Israel, CNN is visualizing the war through maps, charts and more.
Israeli ground forces closing in on Gaza City, satellite imagery and videos show
Nov 3, 2023
Israeli ground forces are advancing on Gaza City, the largest and most densely packed population center in the Palestinian enclave, satellite imagery and videos from open and official sources suggest.
Maps and photos show the impact of the Morocco earthquake
Sep 12, 2023
Morocco’s rich treasury of centuries-old buildings, mosques and relics was dealt a destructive blow by the 6.8-magnitude earthquake.
Explosion likely brought down aircraft purportedly carrying Wagner boss, flight data and video analysis suggest
Aug 25, 2023
CNN analysis of flight data and videos, as well as interviews with aviation and explosive experts, indicates that the private aircraft likely experienced at least one “catastrophic inflight incident” before it dropped out of the sky.
Sweden’s Lina Hurtig feels ‘sick to my stomach’ at the thought of her winning penalty against the US
Aug 9, 2023
Swedish soccer star Lina Hurtig says that rewatching her winning penalty against the United States, which crossed the goal line by the narrowest of margins, makes her “sick to my stomach.”
Sweden allows protest burning Torahs and Bibles outside Israeli Embassy
Jul 14, 2023
Swedish authorities have approved a protest involving the burning of Torahs and Bibles outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden’s national radio broadcaster reported on Friday.
Environment activists smear red paint on Monet artwork at Stockholm museum
Jun 14, 2023
Two activists smeared red paint and glued their hands to the protective glass on a Monet painting at Stockholm’s National Museum on Wednesday, a video released by the organization Aterstall Vatmarker (Restore Wetlands) shows.
Maps: Aftershocks felt across the region after major earthquake hits Turkey
Feb 8, 2023
The earthquake is the strongest to hit Turkey in more than 80 years, according to the US Geological Survey. Tremors from the first earthquake near the border with Syria and more than 100 aftershocks have been recorded across the region, including in Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and Jordan.
How a deadly fire ignited dissent over China’s zero-Covid policy
Dec 3, 2022
Stunning scenes of dissent and defiance played out across China over the past week, marking the country’s largest protests in decades – and an unprecedented challenge to leader Xi Jinping.
Russia is plundering gold in Sudan to boost Putin’s war effort in Ukraine
Jul 29, 2022
Multiple interviews with high-level Sudanese and US officials and troves of documents reviewed by CNN paint a picture of an elaborate Russian scheme to plunder Sudan’s riches in a bid to fortify Russia against increasingly robust Western sanctions and to buttress Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine.
Exclusive: Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine
May 14, 2022
CNN has identified the rocket artillery brigade that launched the cluster munitions attack in residential districts of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv. The Russian general who led the attacks also oversaw the siege of Syria’s eastern Aleppo and the ratcheting up of cluster bomb attacks in the rebel-held territory.
About
Henrik Pettersson is a senior visual editor for CNN Digital’s Data and Graphics team. Based in London, he helps lead a team of designers and data journalists focused on visual coverage of everything from breaking news events to politics, climate, mental health and features.
Swedish-born Pettersson graduated with a degree in Graphic and Media Design from University of the Arts London in 2010 and then went on to work in magazine design before starting his first role in news at The Independent on Sunday in 2015.
Since joining CNN in 2017, Pettersson has been awarded Eppy, Society of News Design and Online Journalism awards, and has been nominated for Emmy and Webby awards.
