Barbara Maseda
Founder Data Editor At Proyecto Inventario
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolBarbara Maseda is a journalist-turned-founder and data editor with a decade of experience building open data and public records access for Cuba through Proyecto Inventario. A 2020 TED Fellow and former John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, she blends investigative reporting, data practices, and product-minded stewardship to make civic information more discoverable and usable. Based in Palo Alto, she leverages a background in online journalism (MA, Birmingham City University) and bilingual translation to navigate complex sources and multilingual datasets. Her work combines grassroots reporting with tooling and editorial systems that bridge traditional journalism and open-data ecosystems. Known for quietly shipping durable data projects since 2018, she brings rare expertise in democratizing records from restrictive information environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
ESL Degree, English, ESL Degree, English at University of BelizeBachelor's Degree, Journalism, Bachelor's Degree, Journalism at University of HavanaMaster’s Degree, Online Journalism, Master’s Degree, Online Journalism at Birmingham City UniversityJonh S. Knight Journalism Fellowship, Media and Communications, Jonh S. Knight Journalism Fellowship, Media and Communications at Stanford University
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (5)
csv10
proxy8
testing8
lists8
translation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
proyectoinvntario/test-lists
Feb 2019 - Feb 2024
URL testing lists intended for discovering website censorship
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years
proxydiscoveringcensorshiptestinglists
barbaramaseda/field-guide-open-source-newsroom
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 months
community-drivennewsroomguidebookreleasing
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