In the current news environment, journalists and developers are increasingly calling upon and benefiting from one another's skills and expertise.
The nearly one-year-old InfoAmazonia is a product of such a partnership–and a testament to the power of collaboration. Led by Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros, InfoAmazonia presents environmental news and maps of open data in Portuguese, Spanish and English from the nine-country Amazon region.
The Washington-based company MapBox built the developer tools for the InfoAmazonia site. During InfoAmazonia’s development, MapBox provided site strategy, Web design and cartography, as well as training for journalists in Brazil on how to use the site’s tools.
IJNet talked with Faleiros and MapBox senior developer Alex Barth to find out how their collaboration improved the work of both.