From Mediabistro’s 10,000 Words: The Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project team has provided journalists everywhere with a lot of motivation to start coding with the launch of its journalism code sharing site, Source.
According to the site’s About page, the project is “dedicated to amplifying the impact of journalism code and the community of developers, designers, journalists, and editors who make it.”
In a recent interview with Journalism.co.uk, Dan Sinker, who heads up the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, said:
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“While the community of people writing all this code is vibrant, it also has existed on the margins. At Source, we wanted to shine a spotlight on both the code and the community.”
And shine a spotlight they do. Source provides users with the ability to easily search its index of newsdev source code as well as look up the developers and organizations who have contributed work to the community.