Edward Tufte has a short paean (with many examples) to Megan Jaegerman, a graphic artist at The New York Times from 1990-1998.

Her work is smart, finely detailed, elegant, witty, inventive, informative. A fierce researcher and reporter, she writes gracefully and precisely. Megan has the soul of a news reporter, who happens to use graphs, tables, and illustrations — as well as words — to explain the news.