Derek Willis has announced he will join ProPublica next month as news applications developer covering politics. He currently writes for The New York Times’ The Upshot blog.
There is a @ProPublica press release about my hiring: https://t.co/b4R4L5QEXX Note that @kleinmatic doesn't specify which planet.
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) July 8, 2015
Willis joined The New York Times’ The Upshot blog as data reporter/blogger in March 2014, and joined the NYT in 2007 on the interactive news desk. Willis had previously worked on computer-assisted reporting projects involving campaign finance at The Center for Public Integrity. Before that, he was a reporter at Congressional Quarterly for five years, and began his journalism career at The Palm Beach (FL) Post. For more information on public interest topics, follow ProPublica on Twitter and “Like” on Facebook.
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