Annie Jennemann

Annie Jennemann is a data journalist for Hearst Television whose real estate coverage applies a rigorous, numbers-first approach to housing markets and their impact on local communities. She previously worked as a data and engagement reporter at The Baltimore Sun and has held reporting roles at organizations including the International Center for Journalists, Kansas City PBS’s Flatland and the Columbia Missourian. Across beats, she translates large datasets, archival records and public documents into clear stories about how policy, infrastructure and market shifts shape everyday life.

Housing prices and market records

Jennemann’s real estate reporting centers on what market data actually shows, not on anecdote. In her coverage of a June spike in the housing market, she documented how the median home sale price reached a record high, framing the story around hard numbers rather than sales chatter. She treats price records as entry points into broader questions about affordability, inventory and neighborhood change, using the same analytical discipline she brings to other data-heavy subjects. Her background as a data reporter means that housing pieces are grounded in quantified trends, historical comparisons and clear explanations of how those figures are calculated.

Legislation, pay and public data

A major strand of Jennemann’s work involves turning complex public data into usable information about government and policy. She built an interactive project that allowed readers to explore more than 800 bills passed during Maryland’s 2023 legislative session by topic, sponsor and enactment status, an effort that was recognized for its innovative use of interactive media.

Her reporting on government pay data has examined how salary figures are compiled and presented, including instances where datasets are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars, highlighting what is revealed and obscured by these conventions. She has also analyzed crime reported by Maryland colleges and universities, publishing both a story and a public dataset that break down campus incidents in a comparable format.

In political coverage, she has written about figures such as Larry Hogan, describing how party leaders view him as divisive within broader debates over the direction of national politics.

Infrastructure, disasters and safety

Jennemann frequently uses data to describe the scale and consequences of infrastructure failures and severe weather. Her work on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge detailed the magnitude of the catastrophe and the recovery effort, connecting the loss of workers and disruption of a key shipping route to the larger economic and logistical toll. In coverage of a tornado outbreak, she contributed reporting that counted and contextualized the 13 tornadoes confirmed in the Baltimore–Washington region, situating local damage within a wider pattern across several states.

Her college-crime analysis also fits into this safety-focused pattern, quantifying incidents reported by institutions and offering a clearer picture of risk beyond isolated headlines. Across these stories, she leans on precise counts, timelines and spatial data to show how infrastructure and environmental events intersect with community safety and public policy.

Historic racing and institutional change

Jennemann’s data work extends into sports history and religious institutions, where she uses records and maps to illuminate long-running debates and structural change. In a feature on the Preakness Stakes, she traced how Secretariat’s 1973 run at Pimlico remained the fastest on record over five decades, unpacking the controversy over a timer malfunction and the eventual formal recognition of the record.

The piece places a single race within a 150-year history, using archival front pages, race times and historical context to show how a sporting achievement sits alongside political events such as Watergate. In coverage of the Catholic Church, she has contributed mapping and data work to explain a plan that cuts the number of parishes in the Baltimore area from 61 to 23, translating an abstract reconfiguration into a concrete geography of worship sites and communities.

She has also been part of an expanded database documenting individuals accused in Catholic Church abuse cases, a public service project that broadens the scope of accountability beyond one archdiocese.

Across these varied subjects, Jennemann’s distinguishing trait is her commitment to accessible, evidence-based storytelling. Whether she is charting a record housing price, organizing hundreds of bills into an interactive interface, or reconstructing the history of a race or a bridge disaster, she focuses on making complex information legible to a general audience. Her experience in building databases, maps and graphical explanations means that she approaches real estate and other beats with an emphasis on structure and clarity: defining the universe of data, showing how it is compiled, and then drawing out the patterns that matter.

That combination of technical skill and plain-language reporting shapes her coverage across housing, policy, safety and culture.