Tool Ruby on Rails crowdsourcing transcription All About Transcribable

• By Erin Kissane
• Jeff Larson, Al Shaw
• ProPublica

Yesterday, ProPublica released Transcribable, a new open source tool that makes orderly crowdsourced transcription available to any organization that uses Ruby on Rails. ProPublica’s Al Shaw introduced the project to the public in a post on ProPublica’s Nerd Blog yesterday and here answers all our questions about the project.

Interview fellowship Latin America news labs Hacks/Hackers Meet Mariano Blejman

• By Mariano Blejman, Erin Kissane
• Mariano Blejman

In the third of our Knight International Journalism Fellow profiles, Mariano Blejman talks about his upcoming projects.