Journalism Technology Leader

I design, build, and deploy data-intensive journalism tools, collaborative AI workflows, and secure newsroom infrastructure.

Formerly Deputy Managing Editor at ProPublica, Chief Product Officer at THE CITY, and Knight EIR at Newspack. Co-founder of DocumentCloud and Board President of MuckRock.

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• Open Journalism Tracking and celebrating open-source sharing culture in news. Also active as a Bluesky bot, which tracks and posts new newsroom GitHub repositories.
• The Data Journalism Podcast Co-hosting discussions on data investigations, visualizations, computational reporting, and AI with Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers.
• GitHub Projects Personal open-source profile featuring code repositories, journalism tools, prototypes, and web publishing experiments.

If you want to supercharge your newsroom's AI workflow, find or build best-in-class editorial tools, or build custom journalism databases to serve your communities:

Email kleinmatic@gmail.com • Connect on LinkedIn

Platforms

In addition to client services I'm hard at work on two stealth startup ideas. If you're interested in hearing more reach out!

• Managed LibreChat Journalism is a team sport, your AI tools should be, too. Secure, collaborative AI workspaces bridged with newsroom MCP databases for editorial teams.
• Project Envoy AI is more than vibe coding. It's a new medium. Project Envoy is a publisher-controlled AI agent representing a newsroom in the agentic web, publishing trustworthy news at scale in the new information ecosystem. Currently in private alpha.

• Vibe Coding is Growing Fast in Newsrooms, Too. (2026) How newsrooms are leveraging AI rapid-prototyping.
• Journalism Lost its Culture of Sharing. Here’s How we Rebuild It. (2026) (With Ben Welsh) Rebuilding our community's collaborative heritage.
• Making Good Trouble with AI (2025) Presentation on AI investigations at Columbia University.
• Why We Published More Than 500 Videos Taken by Parler Users of the Capitol Riot. (2021) Documenting history through collaborative video verification.

As Editor

• We Asked AI to Map Our Stories. Here are the Results. (2024) Conceived and edited a pioneering AI-powered coverage audit mapping reporting gaps across New York City neighborhoods.
• Knight Election Hub (2024) Designed and led the national civic infrastructure initiative connecting over 500 local newsrooms with tools, data, and services for 2024 election coverage.
• Dollars for Docs (2009–2019) Co-edited the landmark investigative database tracking billions in pharmaceutical payments to physicians, sparking national policy changes.
• Losing Ground (2014) Edited an award-winning high-resolution visualization documenting the rapid disappearance of Louisiana's coastline.