Charles M. Blow is an American journalist, and the current visual Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. Blow graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, and has worked as a graphics director and art director for the Times and National Geographic respectively.
In April 2008, he began publishing a column in the Times, featuring charts as a form of opinion journalism; it now appears every Saturday. Blow also writes a blog entitled "By The Numbers" for the newspaper's website.[1]