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Matt Waite
Personal blog · mattwaite.comprogrammingwritingcareer
Matt Waite's personal blog at mattwaite.com covers programming, writing and career. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “What I learned building [Pulitzer winning] PolitiFact”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked as the work of Matt Waite, a journalist and programmer who created PolitiFact. One commenter cites his work at the St. Petersburg Times as a model for newspapers.
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Most-linked posts?
- What I learned building [Pulitzer winning] PolitiFact2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-29
What Hacker News says?
While I certainly understand the interest in outsourcing journalism, I'd much rather see newspapers do things like http://www.mattwaite.com has been doing over at the St. Petersburg times. Matt was the journalist/programmer that created http://www.politifact.com (the first website to win a Pulitzer). I think he's a huge unsung hero in the journalism world. I met him at DjangoCon 2008, and I've been mentally referrin…
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on “The news business is probably holding “a one-way ticket to Bangalore.””Submitted What I learned building [Pulitzer winning] PolitiFact as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demos, not memos (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why (some) journalists should learn (some) code as a story · 1 points
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