We are a digital projects team embedded within The New York Times newsroom. We work on behind-the-scenes technology, collaborating with teams that handle data, graphics, and unique design presentations.
We build tools for reporters, editors, and designers as well as special projects for our readers. We run experiments and guide, train, and support the use of these tools.
The Team (alphabetical order)
- Aaron Krolik
- Alastair Coote (github)
- Andrew Chavez (github)
- Annie Daniel
- Bella Virgilio
- Ben Koski
- Ben Smithgall
- Isaac White
- James Thomas
- Jaymin Patel
- Michael Strickland
- Mike Andre
- Rachel Shorey (github)
- Scott Blumenthal (github)
- Tiff Fehr (github)
Self-service newsroom tools that allow our reporters and editors to publish highly interactive work on their own:
- Tap Stories, for creating visual, mobile-first stories
- Adventure, for building quizzes and interactive stories
- Chatblog, for real-time conversations between Times staff and readers
Reporting tools to help our newsroom drill deeper into beats and make unexpected connections:
- An internal campaign finance database and front end feeding stories and graphics.
- Ongoing collection and continued support of voter file data from US states.
- A set of tools to help the newsroom optimize, manage and search documents.
- The secure, encrypted and anonymous tip-collection system at nytimes.com/tips.
- A “zoo of bots” 🦓🐯💻🤖 to alert reporters to newly posted data or changed data on the web.
- Analysis tools for Supreme Court data.
- A tool to recognize members of Congress by sight.
- Continued support since 2011 for the The Guantánamo Docket, one of the longest-lived public news applications.
- An internal Congress API for building data stories about the legislative branch.
Tools to create more direct and meaningful newsroom/reader interactions including:
- A pipeline for reader submissions to drive stories dependent on reader voices.
- An interactive messaging experience for readers to follow our reporters in the field.
Scalable data pipelines to support major event coverage including:
- The loaders and APIs that drives The New York Times election results.
- The API that powers our Olympic results and graphics.
Experiments with new technologies
Collaborations with Graphics and The Upshot
Infrastructure to support operations for newsroom developers across Interactive News, Graphics, and News Design, including a cloud deployment system that hosts 130+ applications.
We collaborate closely with NYT Graphics, our Computer-Assisted Reporting desk, NYT News Design, The Upshot, and the NYT technology department.
The Interactive News team at The New York Times is always looking to connect with creative, interdisciplinary thinkers with strong technical backgrounds.
If you're interested, please fill out our contact form. You may receive a note from us occasionally.
- 2019: Hacking our Hiring article series in OpenNews's Source, about how Interactive News conducts and evolves our hiring process
- 2019: How We Sped Through 900 Pages of Cohen Documents in Under 10 Minutes
- NiemanLab, 2019: The New York Times has released an open-source tool to let you manage all your internal knowledge more easily
- NiemanLab, 2018: With its new Olympics texting experiment, the Times is saying goodbye to SMS, hello to personalization
- 2017: Developing New Live Coverage Story Formats
- 2016: I Tracked and Tried to Outsmart ‘Hamilton’ Scalpers — With 341 Lines of Code
- NiemanLab, 2015: The New York Times liveblogged last night’s GOP debate directly from Slack
- Poynter, 2012: New York Times news apps team ventures into product development with Olympics syndication
- Mizzou, 2011: The Times techie
- ISOJ, 2010: The Journalist as Programmer: A Case Study of The New York Times Interactive News Technology Department
- 2009: Talk to the Newsroom: Interactive News Collaborative
- NYMag, 2009: The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady