Chris Amico

Oct 8, 2024 | muckrock.com | Allan Lasser |Chris Amico

We’re excited to share the new and improved DocumentCloud experience with you. After seven months of development, we’ve rebuilt the web application to be faster and more useful for your day-to-day tasks. We’ve also established a solid technical foundation to help us add and improve features faster than before, for years to come. You may notice some of our changes immediately—like our improved UI—and feel the effect of others with time, as we release new features.

Aug 21, 2024 | muckrock.com | Chris Amico |Kelly Kauffman

OpenNews’ SRCCON, held in Milwaukee from August 15-16, 2024, is a peer-led conference for journalists to talk about technical and cultural changes that can transform our work. This year, MuckRock Senior Developer Chris Amico led a hands-on session on self-hosted, interactive maps. Now he shares his techniques in For the Record, so you can create your own. Try this at homeFollow the directions in this GitHub repository to get started.

Feb 13, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Chris Amico

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Feb 12, 2024 | muckrock.com | Chris Amico

For at least a decade now, I’ve told journalists building interactive maps two things:You should create maps with a style that fits the story you’re telling and matches your newsroom’s broader design sensibilities. You should use a hosted service to do this. Hosting a full map stack yourself is more cost and trouble than it’s worth. These two ideas have some tension between them. You should own your map design but not the infrastructure that supports it.

Oct 17, 2023 | muckrock.com | Allison Kite |Derek Kravitz |Chris Amico |Dillon Bergin

"Atomic Fallout" is an ongoing collaboration between The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press involving thousands of pages of previously-unreleased government records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. They show radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project was known to pose a threat to people living in North St. Louis County as early as 1949.