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.