Aron Pilhofer is editor of interactive news technologies at The New York Times, overseeing a news-focused team of journalist/developers who build dynamic, data-driven applications to enhance The Times’ reporting online.
He joined The Times in 2005 as a projects editor on the paper’s newly expanded computer-assisted reporting team, where he specialised in stories related to money, politics and influence for the politics desk and Washington bureau.
Prior to joining The Times, Aron was database editor at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, where he began an ongoing project in 2002 to track a new form of political non-profit organization, so-called 527 groups.
The Center’s reporting was among the first to highlight the gaping hole in federal campaign finance regulations, which allows these groups to channel hundreds of millions of dollars into elections nationwide.
Before working at the center, Aron was on the national training staff of Investigative Reporters and Editors and worked for a number of years as a statehouse and projects reporter for Gannett newspapers in New Jersey and Delaware.
At the 2009 summer school, Aron gave a talk about Document Cloud – a way of sharing source documents online.