If you’re a cutting-edge geek with an interest in investigative journalism, there’s a great job opening at the badly named Reporter’s Lab, a project supported by Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. Headed up by former Washington Post editor and reporter Sarah Cohen, the Reporter’s Lab is Duke’s effort to extend what is known as “computational journalism” into the realm of investigative reporting and thereby make investigative reporters more efficient and effective. (I wrote my take on this effort, “Deep Throat Meets Data Mining,” back in 2009; you can find it behind the “columns” tab on the home page of this blog.) The lab, which has an advisory committee that includes many of the top names in American investigative reporting, is looking for a developer, and the description makes it sound like a dream job to me. But then again, I don’t do much in the way of coding (yet). If you do and want to help journalism and advance the public interest in a significant way, you really ought to take a look.
Developing the future of investigative journalism
Filed under computer algorithms, media, program developers
John Mecklin, writer/editor 
propublica’s geek blog seems to be a perfect fit with this…
Is this similar to computer (robot) does better job of sports reporting?
Reading the job description, it sounds like they really need a team and not just one individual to create these dynamic tools and solutions. At the least, they seem to be overlooking the UX requirements of whatever needs to be created.
Instead of knocking on a door and saying, “I’m John from the Washington Post and I am investigating a story about such-and-such. How about knocking on a door and saying, “I’m John. I am a citizen and I am investigating such-and-such.
+1 for Dwayne
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