Features

1. 

   How We Made “Spot the Ball”

   By Alastair Coote, Erin Kissane, Sam Manchester, and Rumsey Taylor

   Posted on July 18, 2014

   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.

2. 

   Source_ebooks

   By Source ebooks

   Posted on March 28, 2014

   A final goodbye to #botweek. As told by a bot.

3. 

   Forking Popcorn for a Journalist Audience

   By Joe Flowers, Adam Martin, Erika Owens, and Brian Williamson

   Posted on January 28, 2014

   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.

4. 

   NPR’s Brian Boyer on Building and Managing News Apps Teams

   By Brian Boyer and Erin Kissane

   Posted on November 6, 2013

   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.

5. John Keefe on leading a news development team

   By John Keefe and Erin Kissane

   Posted on October 16, 2013

   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.

6. A few words from Chrys Wu on her new role

   By Erika Owens and Chrys Wu

   Posted on September 20, 2013

   This week, Hacks/Hackers co-founder Chrys Wu joined the New York Times Developers team as a Developer Advocate.

7. 

   ProPublica’s Jeff Larson on the NSA Crypto Story

   By Erin Kissane, Scott Klein, and Jeff Larson

   Posted on September 6, 2013

   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.

8. Meet Mariano Blejman

   By Mariano Blejman and Erin Kissane

   Posted on March 8, 2013

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

9. Meet Gustavo Faleiros

   By Gustavo Faleiros and Erin Kissane

   Posted on February 27, 2013

   The second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.

10. Meet Mariana Santos

    By Erin Kissane and Mariana Santos

    Posted on February 27, 2013

    The first in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.

11. 

    For Journalism: How it Started, Where it’s Going

    By Erin Kissane and Dave Stanton

    Posted on February 14, 2013

    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.

12. 

    Jessica Lord on sheetsee.js

    By Erin Kissane

    Posted on October 15, 2012

    Jessica Lord breaks down the context and process behind sheetsee.js, a JavaScript mashup developed during her Code for America fellowship.

13. 

    Sisi Wei on Code with Me

    By Erika Owens

    Posted on October 15, 2012

    An interview with Sisi Wei, co-founder of Code with me, an introductory two-day programming workshop for journalists.