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Scott Klein is the Editor of News Applications. He directs a team of journalist/programmers building large interactive software projects that tell journalistic stories, and that help readers find the relevance of complex national stories to themselves and their communities. His team's projects have included Dollars for Docs and The Opportunity Gap.

ProPublica's News Application desk's awards include an Online Journalism Award for General Excellence and a Society for News Design special recognition for “defining the design language of data-driven news apps.” The team maintains a blog at propublica.org/nerds. A full list of their projects is at propublica.org/tools

Scott is also co-founder of DocumentCloud, a two-time recipient of the Knight News Challenge. DocumentCloud is a project that helps news organizations search, manage, and present their source documents.

Prior to ProPublica, Scott worked at The Nation, and at the New York Times.

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Useful Code Snippets

At ProPublica we sometimes share small, simple snippets of using GitHub “Gists.”

Introducing StateFace

Today we released a font that you can use to include small state map shapes as a design element in a web application. It’s called StateFace.

Announcing the ProPublica News Apps Fellowship

The ProPublica News Apps desk is looking for a smart, technically-savvy journalist to join our team for a pilot project we’re calling a News Applications Fellowship.

Adaptive Design, Fixed Widths and Tablets

If you’re trying to make your fixed-width site adaptive, there are some things you need to know about the viewport tag.

How We Made ProPublica.org Look Better on Your Smartphone

In order to make our site more welcoming for the increasing number of you who read us on your smartphones, we’ve redesigned and re-engineered the site so that people on small screens will automatically see a version of the site optimized to fit them.

Behold: ProPublica’s Android App

Readers with Android-based smartphones will be able to keep up on all of ProPublica’s latest stories, long-term investigations, and even our daily links to the best investigative journalism from around the web

Open Source Project: Thinner

Today we’re releasing a new open source project called “Thinner.”

Use Our Dollars for Docs Widget on Your Site

New Version of the ProPublica iPhone and iPad App Available

The newest release of our iOS app is available for download on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and includes significant speed improvements and bug fixes.

Welcome to the Nerd Blog

Introducing our new Nerd Blog, which will let technical readers know what ProPublica’s News Applications desk is up to.

Chart: A Bank’s Best Customers

In the last two years of the boom, CDOs created by one bank commonly purchased slices of other CDOs created by the same bank.

BP Claims Tracker

Follow the damage claims from the Gulf Oil Spill paid by HP.

ProPublica’s New iPhone App—Now on the iPad, Too

We have released a new version of our application for the iPhone and the iPad.

Take a Look at the New ProPublica.org

We have redesigned our website to make it more usable, put things in better context and to make it cleaner and easier to navigate.

Behold: ProPublica’s iPhone App

ProPublica.org, the Mobile Version

ChangeTracker

Track changes the administration makes to WhiteHouse.gov in near-realtime.

Visual of the Inaugural Address

Tracking Obama’s Promises

Changes to Our Homepage

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