Career news! I’ve been named Director of Product Development for DocumentCloud, the open source tool that hundreds of newsrooms worldwide use to catalog, analyze and publish PDF files and other documents. The platform — created via a Knight News Challenge grant — is now part of the non-profit Investigative Reporters and Editors, which in turn is housed in the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.
In my role, I’ll work with an expanded DocumentCloud team and advisory board to improve the basic platform and add premium features. Support for this effort comes via a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announced last summer.
I’m super excited about the project. I’ve been a long-time fan of DocumentCloud — at USA TODAY, we used it extensively, for example, in Ghost Factories and other investigative projects — and it’s become an indispensable tool. Beyond that, I have been involved with IRE via conferences, bootcamps and teaching for many years, and it’s an honor to join the staff.
More news on the project to come!