Scott Klein
Scott Klein was a deputy managing editor. He led the teams at ProPublica that work at the intersection of journalism and technology.
Scott led the teams at ProPublica that work at the intersection of journalism and technology. In addition to leading editorial product development and engineering, he oversaw the interactive projects that tell journalistic stories using data, and that make complex subjects relevant to readers and their communities.
His teams have been recognized with a Peabody Award, several Online Journalism Awards for General Excellence, Malofiej International Infographics Award medals, the Data Journalism Award Jurors Choice Award, as well as Society for News Design Awards of Excellence, including one special recognition for “defining the design language of data-driven news apps.”
Scott is also co-founder of DocumentCloud, a service that helps news organizations search, manage and present their source documents. He sits on the board of the Muckrock Foundation.
Adventure Awaits: Another ProPublica News Apps Fellowship
Starting later this year, ProPublica is going to be part of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellowship program. The OpenNews Fellow will work as a member of our news applications team on major journalism projects and will also get to travel the world attending hack days and conferences.
The ProPublica Pair Programming Project
Come code with us! The ProPublica Pair Programming Project -- or P5 -- opens the ProPublica News Apps desk to newsroom coders who want to work on a ProPublica project, or to finish a project of their own, from the ProPublica offices in New York.
Knight Foundation Grant to Support ProPublica's News Applications Desk
We’re very pleased to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has made a grant to support ProPublica’s news applications desk.
Useful Code Snippets
At ProPublica we sometimes share small, simple snippets of using GitHub "Gists."
Introducing StateFace
Today we released a font that you can use to include small state map shapes as a design element in a web application. It’s called StateFace.
Announcing the ProPublica News Apps Fellowship
The ProPublica News Apps desk is looking for a smart, technically-savvy journalist to join our team for a pilot project we’re calling a News Applications Fellowship.
Adaptive Design, Fixed Widths and Tablets
If you're trying to make your fixed-width site adaptive, there are some things you need to know about the viewport tag.
How We Made ProPublica.org Look Better on Your Smartphone
In order to make our site more welcoming for the increasing number of you who read us on your smartphones, we've redesigned and re-engineered the site so that people on small screens will automatically see a version of the site optimized to fit them.
Behold: ProPublica's Android App
Readers with Android-based smartphones will be able to keep up on all of ProPublica's latest stories, long-term investigations, and even our daily links to the best investigative journalism from around the web
Open Source Project: Thinner
Today we're releasing a new open source project called "Thinner."