Scott Klein
Editorial, Product & AI Strategy Consultant
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolScott Klein is an editorial, product, and AI strategy consultant with 14 years of experience building teams, tools, and coalitions that help newsrooms reinvent how they serve the public. He co-founded DocumentCloud and has led product and data efforts at ProPublica and THE CITY, launching large collaborative reporting projects like Electionland and an AI-driven coverage audit of 4,100+ stories. Scott blends editorial judgment, product leadership, and technical fluency to design pragmatic solutions where the usual playbook fails, from replatforming sites to deploying responsible AI in newsrooms. He led the Knight Election Hub at Automattic, matching more than 500 newsrooms with over 100 products and services in a demand-driven philanthropic model. As Board President of MuckRock, he helps steward essential infrastructure for transparency and investigative reporting. Based in New York, he thrives in roles that require rebuilding and rethinking rather than maintaining the status quo.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at Clark University
Github Skills (46)
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csv-parsing8
csv-reader8
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csv-import8
conceptual-model7
syndication6
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tabular6
wordpress6
scraper5
nyc5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
propublica/newsappmodel
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
newsconceptual-modelconceptual
propublica/guides
Feb 2013 - Mar 2016
ProPublica's News App and Data Style Guides
Contributions:43 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 1 month
newsstyle-guidesnews-apppropublica
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