How does the WaPo dev team inject political discussions into decision? Are there ethical lines the technical team tries to keep in mind with their technology?
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.
Not that I have experienced - much of our work is about providing tools to journalists regardless of the stories they are working on. The ONE time we did have little discussions is how to roll out a specific tool - maybe don't roll out a new tool on a hot button topic before it has been THROUGHLY tested in a low stakes section - we as the tech team would not want journalists to get slammed b/c our tool accidentally served pages wrong, or injected something that should not be in a certain article...
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How does the WaPo dev team inject political discussions into decision? Are there ethical lines the technical team tries to keep in mind with their technology?
Not that I have experienced - much of our work is about providing tools to journalists regardless of the stories they are working on. The ONE time we did have little discussions is how to roll out a specific tool - maybe don't roll out a new tool on a hot button topic before it has been THROUGHLY tested in a low stakes section - we as the tech team would not want journalists to get slammed b/c our tool accidentally served pages wrong, or injected something that should not be in a certain article...