open source projects that started in/around journalism

open-source-journalism.md

Projects

• Django, Lawrence Journal-World (newspaper in Kansas, USA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)
• Backbone.js, Underscore.js - Jeremy Ashkenas (former developer at New York Times, USA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone.js
• D3.js, Mike Bostock, Jeffrey Heer, Vadim Orgievetskey, et al. (Stanford University Visualization, later at New York Times) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bostock
• PastPages, Ben Welsh (LA Times): http://www.pastpages.org/ https://github.com/pastpages/pastpages.org
• The Financial Times' Polyfill https://polyfill.io/v2/docs/
• DocumentCloud https://www.documentcloud.org/home | https://github.com/documentcloud
• The Coral Project https://coralproject.net | https://github.com/coralproject | https://docs.coralproject.net
• Mr. Data Converter http://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter/

Teams & Repositories

• Vox Media https://github.com/voxmedia
• FT Labs https://github.com/ftlabs
• LA Times Data Desk https://github.com/datadesk
• Chicago Tribune News Apps https://github.com/newsapps
• WNYC https://github.com/wnyc

There's a couple of things coming out of FT Labs: http://labs.ft.com/ (eg. https://polyfill.io/v2/docs/)

DocumentCloud, a catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web. Use the Web app or install your own. Backbone.js and Underscore.js created and released in the process of DocumentCloud development – https://www.documentcloud.org/home | https://github.com/documentcloud

Us! The Coral Project is an open source project to create tools for engagement around journalism. Written in Go, React on MongoDB.

https://coralproject.net | https://github.com/coralproject | https://docs.coralproject.net