# Scott Klein

### Profile

## About Me

**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](https://www.propublica.org), Chief Product Officer at [THE CITY](https://www.thecity.nyc), and Knight EIR at [Newspack](https://newspack.com). Co-founder of [DocumentCloud](https://www.documentcloud.org) and Board President of [MuckRock](https://www.muckrock.com).

**[Read résumé](/resume)**

### Now

## Ongoing Projects

- **[Open Journalism](https://openjournalism.news)** Tracking and celebrating open-source sharing culture in news. Also active as a [Bluesky bot](https://bsky.app/profile/openjournalism.bsky.social), which tracks and posts new newsroom GitHub repositories.

- **[The Data Journalism Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-data-journalism-podcast/id1736195724)** Co-hosting discussions on data investigations, visualizations, computational reporting, and AI with Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers.

- **[GitHub Projects](https://github.com/kleinmatic)** Personal open-source profile featuring code repositories, journalism tools, prototypes, and web publishing experiments.

### Services

## [Work With Me](/work)

**Available for freelance & consulting work.**

AI enablement, data journalism, product and editorial strategy, and 0→1 innovation leadership for news and mission-driven organizations.

**[See how we can work together →](/work)**

**Email [kleinmatic@gmail.com](mailto:kleinmatic@gmail.com) • Connect on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kleinmatic)**

**Platforms**

<em>Alongside client work I'm building two stealth startup ideas. If you want to hear more, reach out.</em>

- **[Managed LibreChat](/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. <i>Currently in private alpha.</i>

### Selected Work

## Clips

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- **[Vibe Coding is Growing Fast in Newsrooms, Too.](https://openjournalism.news/2026/05/18/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.](https://source.opennews.org/articles/journalism-lost-sharing-culture/)** (2026) (With Ben Welsh) Rebuilding our community's collaborative heritage.

- **[Making Good Trouble with AI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FPAu6MccqU&list=PLAiy7NYe9U2FIaWbb67rUJAAqrcJxLmYN&index=7&t=3s)** (2025) Presentation on AI investigations at Columbia University.

- **[Why We Published More Than 500 Videos Taken by Parler Users of the Capitol Riot.](https://www.propublica.org/article/why-we-published-parler-users-videos-capitol-attack)** (2021) Documenting history through collaborative video verification.

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**As Editor**

- **[We Asked AI to Map Our Stories. Here are the Results.](https://projects.thecity.nyc/thecity-coverage-map/)** (2024) Conceived and edited a pioneering AI-powered coverage audit mapping reporting gaps across New York City neighborhoods.

- **[Knight Election Hub](https://knightelectionhub.org/)** (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](https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars)** (2009–2019) Co-edited the landmark investigative database tracking billions in pharmaceutical payments to physicians, sparking national policy changes.

- **[Losing Ground](https://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/)** (2014) Edited an award-winning high-resolution visualization documenting the rapid disappearance of Louisiana's coastline.