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Ben Halpern

Yeah that makes sense. What are some of the problems you're typically working to solve as an internal-facing dev?

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Jessica Bell

Reporters want to make their articles more content more engaging so they use our tools to do things like add user polls or context notes - here is an example: washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/09/1...

My team was part of the collaboration to make a tools for journalists to make context notes attached into their articles - we had to make it look good and work on wapo.com AND make the internal editor easy for journalists to use ;)