Hack The Press is written by a small team of people who spend their days testing the tools reporters, coders and designers use to build news. We cover everything from data scraping scripts to newsroom publishing platforms, with an eye toward what actually holds up under deadline pressure.
Every guide starts with a real newsroom task – pulling a public records dataset, building an interactive map, or migrating a CMS – and we work through it with the tools in question before writing a single recommendation. We prioritize coverage based on what readers ask us about and what keeps showing up in newsroom tech forums and mailing lists.
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We get things wrong sometimes, and we would rather hear about it than not – if you spot an error, have a tool we should test, or just want to ask a question, you can reach us through the contact page.
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