Hello Jessica! Are you building tools that are only available to WaPo's journalist? What's it like building internal tools compare to other forms of software? What is the release cycle like?
I am a developer at The Washington Post and I help build newsroom facing tools. I also am the Chair of the DC chapter of ACM and produce a podcast called DC Tech Stories.
MOST of our tools are internal only. We are working to get some integrated with Arc, the WaPo client platform that is licensed out to other publications. That is kinda a new thing (us having integrated tools) so we are still figuring out how releases will go! Internally, we do springs on one specific goal (ie: redesign of the styles of one specific tool) and will do a release after that and move on to the next... all while supporting bugs for all tools #tiring
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Hello Jessica! Are you building tools that are only available to WaPo's journalist? What's it like building internal tools compare to other forms of software? What is the release cycle like?
MOST of our tools are internal only. We are working to get some integrated with Arc, the WaPo client platform that is licensed out to other publications. That is kinda a new thing (us having integrated tools) so we are still figuring out how releases will go! Internally, we do springs on one specific goal (ie: redesign of the styles of one specific tool) and will do a release after that and move on to the next... all while supporting bugs for all tools #tiring