Scott Klein is the Senior Editor, News Applications at ProPublica. 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.
