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Scott Klein

Introducing the Open(source).athon in NYC

The Hacks/Hackers NYC is throwing an open(source).athon in the OpenPlans penthouse on Oct 2 to see how much great software for news/information we can open source in 12 hours? If you are a hacker, bring your code and get the time and some help to push

ProPublica Redesign Involves the Readers in Complex Stories

At ProPublica, we make a habit of sharing. We give our biggest stories for free to news organizations, and we hand out recipes for some of our most complex investigations. We encourage other news organizations to steal our stories, and give out, free to use, clean, reliable, analyzed data that

Don’t mistake your CMS for a development platform

The Washington Post was an early pioneer in building interactive journalism applications, hiring luminaries no less bright than Adrian Holovaty and Derek Willis, among others. But they admit they’ve fallen behind in recent years. Post managing editor Raju Narisetti recently sounded an all-too-common refrain to explain the paper’s