News Hackers
Nick Bilton
Columnist and Lead Writer, The New York Times, Bits Blog. NYU Adjunct Professor. Author, book: 'I Live in the Future & Here's How it Works'118,085 followers | Follow
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar...40,397 followers | Follow
Cody Brown
Founder of @scrollkit. Trying to make the internets more cinematic. Contact me at codyvbrown 'at' gmail.com16,859 followers | Follow
Craig Kanalley
@HuffingtonPost senior editor, big news + live events. Into tech/journalism, social media, hockey + genealogy. Part Canadian. Born/raised in Buffalo, NY.13,225 followers | Follow
David Cohn
Journalism entrepreneur. Founding editor @Circa (www.cir.ca). Founder of Spot.Us (now part of APM). Do lots of things to help where I can. Also, I love you.11,394 followers | Follow
Taylor Buley
Once wrote news & now I write news software. Work: PHP, JavaScript and journalism; Otherwise: Coding reporting tools & trying to get back into shape for rugby.10,999 followers | Follow
Zach Seward
Senior editor at Quartz, a global business news venture. Previously did social at @WSJ and helped start @NiemanLab. Notes: zach dot seward at gmail dot com10,243 followers | Follow
James Ball
Guardian journo; ex-wikileaker; City Uni data lecturer; heading to the Washington Post this summer (Stern fellowship). Usual disclaimers apply10,194 followers | Follow
Benji Lanyado
Freelance journalist and digital producer for Guardian & NYT. Recovering travel writer, increasingly domesticated. http://top5news.co.uk9,438 followers | Follow
Adrian Holovaty
Web developer, Python programmer, founder of EveryBlock, cocreator of the Django Web framework, poster of YouTube guitar videos.9,187 followers | Follow
Jacob Harris
I am a Senior Software Architect and news hacker at the New York Times. Apologies to my new followers.7,931 followers | Follow
Robert Hernandez
Profe @USCAnnenberg MacGyvering Web journalism solutions. Co-founder of #wjchat. @ONA board member. @NAHJ 4life // My headphones... they saved my life.7,918 followers | Follow
Aron Pilhofer
I run a newsroom team of journalist/developers at The New York Times and co-founder of DocumentCloud.org. Yachtsman.6,806 followers | Follow
Will Sullivan
Mobile Products Manager @BBGinnovate. Also, @ONA Board Secretary. @NPPAImmersion Co-Director. Into: Mobile. Tablets. Ebooks. Bears. Beats. Battlestar Galactica.6,414 followers | Follow
Scott Karp
Co-founder and CEO of Publish2. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.6,382 followers | Follow
Ryan Sholin
Director, UGC & Site Solutions at Gannett Digital. I make/do/talk about cool things for journalists. Also, a lot of parenting. No funny stuff.5,667 followers | Follow
Greg Galant
CEO of @Sawhorse Media, our businesses include @MuckRack and @ShortyAwards. Creator of @VentureVoice. Member of @Twitter's first name club.5,232 followers | Follow
Brian Boyer
Editor, News Applications at Chicago Tribune. More at @tribapps. Project manager for @pandaproject. Will soon join @nprapps.4,534 followers | Follow
Matt Stiles
Data journalist at @NPR. @TexasTribune alum. Created @TribData. Fan of @IRE_NICAR and @aaja. Love 牛肉麵. Proud INTJ.4,408 followers | Follow
Greg Linch
Special projects + news apps @WashingtonPost; aspiring web developer; fan of people, science, tech, data, karaoke; amateur guitar player; dislikes writing bios4,329 followers | Follow
Andy Boyle
Enviably pathetic internet maker seeks cat sitter well-versed in journalism ethics. Nebraskan. Journo-hacker. Likes burritos.4,269 followers | Follow
Lisa Williams
CEO & Founder of Placeblogger, MIT Media Lab fellow, into the future of news. My learning-to-code blog: http://lifeandcode.tumblr.com .3,814 followers | Follow
Jeremy Zilar
Blog Specialist at the New York Times. Husband to @oubliette, Father of @keplr. jeremyz@nytimes.com3,796 followers | Follow
Lauren Rabaino
Associate producer at @seattletimes. Blogger at @10000words. VP of programs for @aajaseattle. I work at the intersection of journalism and technology.3,779 followers | Follow
Yuri Victor
Designer. Coder. Journalist. UX Director. Washington Post. ////////////////////// I love you.3,374 followers | Follow
Mark S. Luckie
Author of The Digital Journalist's Handbook, founder of the 10,000 Words journalism blog, WaPo Twitter jockey. Fan of all things awesome.3,318 followers | Follow
Eric Umansky
Senior Editor @ProPublica and co-founder @DocumentCloud. Latest project: @umanskyjr.3,240 followers | Follow
Dan Nguyen
Investigative journalist @ProPublica; Author of this Ruby guide: http://bit.ly/BBoRuby , http://SOPAopera.org, Photographer (http://bit.ly/fKz2h1), pho-lover3,195 followers | Follow
Matt Waite
Journalism Prof. @ U of Nebraska-Lincoln, founder of Drone Journalism Lab, co-founder of Hot Type Consulting LLC, developer of PolitiFact.3,168 followers | Follow
jonathanstray
Journalist, computer scientist, internationalist. Building the @overviewproject open-source document mining system for AP. Circus geek.3,162 followers | Follow
Erica Smith
Journalist, researcher, social media junkie, 'Twitter sweetheart.' I eat M&Ms in Roy G. Biv order. (Curator in chief at @Infuz, but these tweets are all mine.)3,151 followers | Follow
Tristan Harris
Information philosopher, PM at Google, co-founder & CEO of @Apture (acquired by Google), opinions expressed here are my own.3,004 followers | Follow
gabriel dance
interactive editor, guardian. formerly chief multimedia producer at the new york times as well as art director for the daily.3,003 followers | Follow
Scott Klein
Editor of News Applications, ProPublica, and Co-Founder of DocumentCloud. I tweet about news, software as journalism, data viz, design, and sometimes baseball.2,719 followers | Follow
Michael Young
news.me founder/cto (@betaworks). former lead technologist at nytimes r&d lab2,683 followers | Follow
Derek Willis
Interactive news developer @nytimes.com. potentially counterproductive to democracy since 2012.2,672 followers | Follow
Bill Couch
Designer, photographer, futurist, cyclist. Front-end engineer at Twitter. Probably eating your leftovers.2,523 followers | Follow
Derek Gottfrid
2,473 followers | Follow
Tyson Evans
Developer, designer, journalist @NYTimes. Adjunct professor @ColumbiaJourn. Board member @SND.2,327 followers | Follow
Chris Amico
Journalist/developer for @NPR, working on StateImpact. Sinophile for fun. Helper on @HomicideWatch.2,308 followers | Follow
Jennifer Brook
Independent maker of lovely things: mobile, books, systems. Teaches design @thenewschool. Previously ixd @method_inc, @nytimes.2,221 followers | Follow
Michelle Minkoff
Interactive Producer for the Associated Press in Washington, DC. Combining my equal passions for data, journalism and technology.2,185 followers | Follow
Matt McAlister
Thinking about media. Working at the Guardian. Living in London. Married with 3 kids.2,073 followers | Follow
Josh Young
Formerly ran social network stuff at the Huffington Post. Now run expert network stuff at Sulia. Get involved.2,059 followers | Follow
Andrei Scheinkman
Interactive news at @huffingtonpost. Previously @nytimes.1,955 followers | Follow
Paul Smith
Deputy Director of Technology at the Democratic National Committee. Co-founded EveryBlock.1,918 followers | Follow
Jon Bruner
Data journalist writing and hacking for Forbes. Expert at getting sidetracked.1,856 followers | Follow
Stuart A. Thompson
Multimedia editor and @GlobeDataBureau member at The Globe and Mail. Writer and hacker. Consumer of fine journalism, enjoyer of new media.1,838 followers | Follow
Tasneem Raja
Interactive editor @MotherJones. Former web app maker @TheBayCitizen, feature writer @ChicagoReader. Loves good essays, bad television.1,676 followers | Follow
Joe Germuska
News Application Developer, Chicago Tribune • Host of Conference of the Birds on WNUR-FM • Civic Technology • Open Source1,666 followers | Follow
Albert Sun
News apps developer at NYT, formerly WSJ. graduated Penn 2010, geek, journalist, data-viz, nlp, gis, digital economics =)1,560 followers | Follow
Dave Stanton
smartmediacreative.com (managing developer), majorplanetstudios.org (technology director), poynter.org (technology fellow), viewsourcepodcast.com (host), data1,502 followers | Follow
John Bowman
Associate producer at @CBCNews with the @CBCCommunity desk. Also into databases, maps, dataviz. GeekDad. Opinions are mine and not the Corp's. RT != +11,453 followers | Follow
Samuel Clay
Pour kettle and let steep the gods of tea. @newsblur is my caffeine baby.1,324 followers | Follow
Patrick Beeson
I'm the director of digital communications for Wake Forest University. I'm also a cyclist, homebrewer and web developer. These tweets are my own.1,293 followers | Follow
Heather Billings
A steamroller in heels. Journo-geek with @tribapps. My heart's in the high country of the Sierras.1,278 followers | Follow
Olivia Hubert Allen
Digital journalist. Front end web dev & design. Likes data. Works in audience engagement @baltimoresun. Elon Alumna. Curl advocate.1,267 followers | Follow
Joey Marburger
Mobile design @washingtonpost. Purdue alumnus. Married to @CasLikeThat. Focus while staying distracted.1,245 followers | Follow
Alexis Lloyd
Designer, Creative Technologist, New York Times R+D Lab / News.me1,156 followers | Follow
Allison Martell
I'm a Reuters reporter, but this is a personal account. I have a background in economics and statistics, and I work with young writers at @shamelessmag.1,144 followers | Follow
Joshua Hatch
Online content manager of Sunlight Live; adjunct professor at American University; trainer; consultant; husband; father; walker of dogs; tall guy.1,123 followers | Follow
Christopher Groskopf
Lead Developer on @pandaproject. Formerly with @tribapps. Pythonista & Djangonaut. @hacktyler founder. #csvkit architect. Moralist. Served from cache.1,115 followers | Follow
Jeremy Bowers
News developer for the Washington Post. Foodie. Bad soccer player. Dilettante oenophile. Djangonaut. Espouser of obscure baseball statistics.1,112 followers | Follow
Joe Murphy
Journalist web geek. I'm a @denverpost #DFM newsroom developer, and I write here about online news + web dev. Medill grad ('00). Also @freejoe76, @denverpostjoe1,094 followers | Follow
Marc Lavallee
Socializing news with technology at The New York Times. Former NPR, WaPo, Boston Globe, etc etc.1,046 followers | Follow
Alyson Hurt
Interactive designer for @nprnews and @nprmusic. Married to @pong. Shutterbug. Wanderer. Geek.1,023 followers | Follow
Andre Behrens
Maker and seeker of well built things. Creator of @nytskimmer. Non est salvatori salvator1,019 followers | Follow
Jacqueline Kazil
a data lover / pythonista / djangonaut / computational social scientist / czech-american / founder of PyLadies DC / organizer of @django_district & @GeoNerdsDC1,018 followers | Follow
Dave Denis
husband and dad to #sirpoopsalot. senior director of product and operations @WGBH. tweets are mine and honestly even I don't want them.995 followers | Follow
Melissa Garcia
Web developer and designer. Tech evangelist and gamer. Martial artist and knitter. Journalist and lover of cinnamon, cereal, fantasy, anime and Sci-Fi. Texan.982 followers | Follow
Jim Colgan
Head of media at @mobilecommons. Recovering public radio producer. Work with news orgs on mobile audience engagement.961 followers | Follow
Michael Corey
News Applications Developer, Center for Investigative Reporting. I love mapping and interface design. History, food, gardening, baking = good.912 followers | Follow
Dan Blah Meredith
Single servings on society, technology, media, and politics from a technologist & journalist at Radio Free Asia. The opinions expressed are mine alone.892 followers | Follow
Adam Hemphill
I ride bikes, climb mountains, drink beer and create portmanteaux; in my free time, I'm a software engineer at @wired. The opinions expressed herein are facts.886 followers | Follow
longcreative
Journalist, geographer, traveler, company owner. Co-Founder of @HuntersDB860 followers | Follow
La Toya Tooles
Web producer at @CIRonline/@CaliforniaWatch/@TheBayCitizen. Recent graduate from @columbiajourn. Trying to get my life together, one load of laundry at a time.724 followers | Follow
Liz Hargreaves
New media/journalism geek living in Northern Canada. Interested in sci-fi, movies, and science. I tweet about my home Yellowknife at @yellowknifeinfo713 followers | Follow
Mike Tigas
Make and break internets at a newspaper. Python, Django, JS, iOS, news apps, datavis, maps, trolling, et al.686 followers | Follow
Joan Huang
NYT strategy and planning, Columbia grad student, foodie, geek of all trades. Tweeting about life, data, news, and nerdery.675 followers | Follow
Ryan Murphy
Data reporter with @texastribune. University of Texas at Austin multimedia journalism graduate. I like to figure things out. Also tweeting at @TribData.656 followers | Follow
Aaron Williams
I'm sort of like W.E.B DuBois meets Heavy D & The Boys. Web Producer for @latimes starting June 4. Coffee geek extraordinaire.654 followers | Follow
Mike Corones
I grepped, fixed, trained, coded, documented, helped, produced, answered, blogged, edited & vizualuzed @washingtonpost & @stateoftheusa.618 followers | Follow
Garance Burke
Associated Press reporter, truth sleuth & data wrangler in San Francisco. Tweets in a few languages, codes in one. News/ideas always welcome: gburke@ap.org.599 followers | Follow
Justin Myers
Journalist, researcher, baker, programmer, crocheter, engineer. News developer for @NewsHour. Always knows where his towel is.535 followers | Follow
William M. Hartnett
Librettist, tree surgeon, taikonaut, and inventor of best-in-breed, integrated, blue sky pants management products such as Remember the Pants.514 followers | Follow
James Wilkerson
Journalist. Data geek. Working my ass off for The Washington Post.450 followers | Follow
Coulter Jones
Data journalist @cironline, @californiawatch formerly @IRE_NICAR. Mizzou grad and baseball fan. As likely to tweet about former as the latter.405 followers | Follow
Lauren Keane
Digital Innovations Editor for investigative and data projects at the Washington Post. San Francisco born and bred. Heart still there.386 followers | Follow
Martin Frobisher
A real lucky guy. Designs web sites like politifact.com and tampabay.com/mugshots when he's not home cooking meat on the grill and/or drinking beer.365 followers | Follow
Ryan McNeill
Muckraker. Hack. Newsman. Journalist. Data nerd. Whatever. I do it all for The Dallas Morning News, but the stupid things I say here are my own.354 followers | Follow
Michael Strickland
@nytimes interactive news developer. recovering nyu / gallatin student. news apper / shake shacker / insomniac.328 followers | Follow
Jennifer Bensko Ha
Digital media vet. Fmr. Exec. Director of Digital at WNYC, Editor, Fortune.com, Senior Editor, Newsweek.com. Wannabe triathlete.319 followers | Follow
Ari Rizzitano
Developer (Python, JS, PHP) at @upstatement. Built @glyphosaurus.280 followers | Follow
Will Van Wazer
I'm a fourth year at @UVa, and, starting May 28th, an embedded Web Developer at the Washington Post.232 followers | Follow
Gabriel Stein
@BU_tweets grad, Technical Specialist @DoubleClick. On Twitter discussing the future of everything. Helped found: @buquad @swagtagit217 followers | Follow
Anders Eriksen
News hacker, journalist, project manager and your all-in-one newsroom data cleaner and Django tweaker. Working for TV 2 Norway, News dept.189 followers | Follow
Brandon Taylor
Python/Django evangelist. Hawaiian Lua teacher. Father of three. Atheist. Libertarian. Despiser of big government.146 followers | Follow
shane shifflett
Reporter & Data Engineer @ Center for Investigative Reporting146 followers | Follow
Taylor Barstow
100 followers | Follow
alan_mclean
61 followers | Follow
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I recommend @taylorbuley for @harrisj's News Hackers list on Listorious http://bit.ly/25s7sf because built Forbes's group Twittering system.
