Aron Pilhofer is a co-founder of DocumentCloud. Today Knight Foundation is announcing $250,000 in new support to the open source journalism tool, to encourage investigative journalism and the exchange of public information. It was just about nine years ago when Eric Umansky, Scott Klein and I hit upon an idea we hoped might help journalists be […]
Article · July 27, 2017 by Aron Pilhofer
Knight Foundation recently took a look at the 2009 Knight News Challenge winners, including the success of the project DocumentCloud. Here, one of the founders Aron Pilhofer talks about how the site became a standard tool for newsrooms in just two years. It was four years ago when Eric Umansky, Scott Klein and I first met to discuss submitting a Knight […]
Article · September 18, 2012 by Aron Pilhofer
Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news at the New York Times, was one of the 19 readers for the 2012 Knight News Challenge projects moving on to the next round. Here, he provides his thoughts on the entries the committee considered. The folks at Knight asked me to jot down a few thoughts about some of […]
Article · April 26, 2012 by Aron Pilhofer