Features

1. 

   All About Transcribable

   By Erin Kissane

   Posted on July 17, 2013

   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.

2. 

   Strongbox Reactions, Part II

   By Jacob Harris, Erin Kissane, Jonathan Stray, and Mike Tigas

   Posted on May 16, 2013

   We asked for your thoughts on Strongbox, the New Yorker’s new implementation of DeadDrop. Our first wave of responses includes the New York Times’ Jacob Harris, the Overview Project’s Jonathan Stray, and Mike Tigas, OpenNews Fellow at ProPublica.

3. ProPublica’s News Apps Guides

   By Scott Klein

   Posted on February 28, 2013

   Yesterday morning, the ProPublica apps team released a series of documents outlining their coding philosophy, app design and development practices, data validation techniques, and more. We spoke with Scott Klein about how his team’s processes evolved and how they made the time to document it all.