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Interview Remote Control: Mandy Brown of Vox Product
In the first installment of our new series on remote work in journalism-tech, Kaeti Hinck speaks with Mandy Brown about her setup, her team’s approach, and her advice to to anyone who wants to go remote.
Interview Bot Benediction, 2015
Our now-traditional #botweek closing peers inside our metaphors and the fragile magic of the bots we make, use, and love.
Interview How We Made “Spot the Ball”
- By Alastair Coote, Erin Kissane, Sam Manchester, Rumsey Taylor
- Alastair Coote, Sam Manchester, Colleen McEnaney, Rumsey Taylor
- The New York Times
Even among the many wonderful World Cup interactives and news apps we saw this year, the NYT’s Spot the Ball was a standout, both in conception and execution. We spoke with the team behind it about the project’s design, world-class Photoshopping, and surprising inspiration.
Interview Forking Popcorn for a Journalist Audience
- By Joe Flowers, Adam Martin, Erika Owens, Brian Williamson
- Joe Flowers, Adam Martin, Brian Williamson
- Broadcasting Board of Governors
At the Mozilla Festival last fall, a team from the Broadcasting Board of Governors launched KettleCorn, their fork of the Mozilla video-editing tool Popcorn.
Interview NPR’s Brian Boyer on Building and Managing News Apps Teams
Yesterday, NPR announced that news apps team leader Brian Boyer was assuming a new role as head of the combined news apps/multimedia superteam. Boyer offers the unusual experience of having built out two news apps teams within five years, first at the Chicago Tribune and then at NPR. We spoke with him about his new gig, his path from computer science to journalism, his focus on sound process, and the internal obstacles new teams can face.
Interview John Keefe on leading a news development team
Today is Source’s one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we’re kicking off a new series of interviews with news apps and interactive features editors. John Keefe tells us about learning as you go, cicadas, and how the WNYC Data News team came to be.
Interview A few words from Chrys Wu on her new role
This week, Hacks/Hackers co-founder Chrys Wu joined the New York Times Developers team as a Developer Advocate.
Interview ProPublica’s Jeff Larson on the NSA Crypto Story
- By Erin Kissane, Scott Klein, Jeff Larson
- James Ball, Julian Borger, Scott Klein, Jeff Larson, Nicole Perlroth, Scott Shane
- ProPublica, The Guardian, The New York Times
We sat down with ProPublica’s contributor to the story, Jeff Larson—with an assist from news apps editor Scott Klein—to talk about the tech involved and why the story needed someone from the team affectionately called the news nerds.
Interview Meet Mariano Blejman
In the third of our Knight International Journalism Fellow profiles, Mariano Blejman talks about his upcoming projects.
Interview Meet Gustavo Faleiros
The second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Interview Meet Mariana Santos
The first in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Interview For Journalism: How it Started, Where it’s Going
- By Erin Kissane, Dave Stanton
- Jeremy Bowers, Chase Davis, Christopher Groskopf, Jeff Larson, Jacqui Maher, Michelle Minkoff, Ryan Pitts, Ken Schwencke, Dave Stanton, Mike Tigas
The For Journalism project aims to create nine brand-new courses for journalists who want to learn how to design and build news applications, and to offer them to individuals and institutions in the fall of 2013.
Interview Jessica Lord on sheetsee.js
Jessica Lord breaks down the context and process behind sheetsee.js, a JavaScript mashup developed during her Code for America fellowship.
Interview Sisi Wei on Code with Me
An interview with Sisi Wei, co-founder of Code with me, an introductory two-day programming workshop for journalists.
