I'm impressed with NYT's willingness to experiment. Maybe we could do a Product Hunt + NYT API mashup. We're organizing a hackathon (details TBD) so maybe someone will do something then. :)
@rrhoover Ooh! As the person that made sure to get the NYT API team at the TCD hackathons I would love to help facilitate this peanut butter and chocolate combo. I'm going to make sure they see this and LMK if I can help in any way!
@rrhoover Being part of a Product Hunt hackathon would be great. We're always trying to spread the word about our APIs and we'd love to help out however we can.
this is indeed awesome. i want to point out (as a h/t to the gray lady, i suppose) that these APIs have been available for years. our team used the campaign finance API when building Super PAC App back in 2012. @derekwillis was the go-to dude for the API back then...
@realmandan Yup, you're right -- some of our APIs have been public since 2008! Derek is still around and responsible for our political APIs, though he's much busier these days, being a major contributor to The Upshot (http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/) and all.
The NYT (along with the Guardian) is one of the most digitally innovative legacy newsrooms around. They have an amazing range of historical data, from campaign finance, to recipes to movie reviews (it's amazing to read the original review of The Godfather, for example). Also neat is Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, who headed the digital report and is now senior editor for strategy in the newsroom.
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