I am thrilled to announce (though slightly belatedly) our first hires to the News Catalyst team. Heather Bryant will take on the position of deputy director, product. For this role, I was looking for someone with a sharp product focus, someone who is creative and entrepreneurial — oh, and someone…

Want to save local news? We do too. — For struggling local news organizations, digital transformation has become something closer to digital survival. That’s why we launched News Catalyst. Simply put, our mission is to help local news enterprises transform themselves into sustainable digital businesses. …

Great for bankers, shareholders; lousy for consumers, journos — God bless Ken Doctor for having the patience to dig through all this Wall Street posturing and monetary machismo to pull together such clear-eyed analyses of the Gannett/GateHouse merger (acquisition, really, as it turns out). Few people are better sourced than Ken is on these kinds of stories — and…

We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to the DocumentCloud family, Dylan Freedman, who has assumed the role of lead developer. Dylan comes to us fresh off earning his masters in journalism at Stanford University — but he’s no typical hack. …

If we want to save local journalism, we need to know what’s actually killing it. — A bit of a rant. I wasn’t going to say anything about the absurd, unnecessary shots this New York Times story took at Craig Newmark in reporting his welcome and generous $20 million donation to CUNY’s journalism school. But after reading all this journalist-driven outrage on the subject, enough’s enough. …

We are thrilled to announce that DocumentCloud and MuckRock are merging. The reason is simple: Mission. Our organizations share a core belief that institutions should be open, transparent and accountable to the people they serve. This merger will strengthen both organizations and allow us to serve our users, and our…

Last October, Quartz and DocumentCloud joined together to launch Quackbot, a bot that performs useful tasks for journalists from inside Slack. It’s completely free and available to any newsroom. All you need is a (free) DocumentCloud account. More than two dozen newsrooms are already using Quackbot, even with a very…

This is a growing list of tools and resources for journalism mentioned at our 2018 International Journalism Festival Panel. If you know of others, please let me know at @pilhofer on Twitter. Jennifer Brandel’s List Design Justice Creating design practices that center on those who stand to be most adversely impacted by design decisions…

DocumentCloud.org is hiring. Come help build the future of journalism. A bit more than six years ago, Ted Han took over as lead developer at DocumentCloud.org, then a humble side project Eric Umansky, Scott Klein and I launched in 2009 to build trust in journalism. Oh how things have changed. …