Mike Tigas is a News Applications Developer at ProPublica. He also works on tools for online privacy and the liberation of public data. He is a lead developer on Tabula (a data extraction tool for PDF files), Onion Browser (an anonymizing web browser for iOS), and CivOmega (an open search engine for public data). He was a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow and previously worked as a newsroom web developer at The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.).
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Articles
Nov. 4, 11:31 a.m.
Ahead of the November midterms, we take stock of the state of voting rights across the country.
Aug. 8, 10:43 a.m.
Software created by the controversial U.K. based Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers that appear to be located in the United States.
July 16, 4:17 p.m.
Last month, we removed links to download Form 990 document PDFs from our Nonprofit Explorer database.
July 9, 4:01 p.m.
If you downloaded the privacy software Tor in 2011, you may have been flagged to be spied on.
May 1, 12:11 p.m.
Hundreds of school districts were placed under court order to desegregate following the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Many communities do not know the status of these orders. Use this tool to find out whether your district is or ever was under a desegregation order, and al
April 9, 4:15 p.m.
What newsroom developers can do about the Heartbleed security bug.
March 14, 11:01 a.m.
Unpaid internships can help young workers advance their career goals. But they can also vary significantly in cost and quality. Explore college internship programs at different schools across the United States — or tell us about your experience interning for academic credit.
Jan. 27, 12:21 p.m.
We’ve launched a more secure way for sources to send us sensitive messages and files.
Dec. 20, 2013, 3:45 p.m.
How much do you pay in tuition to take an internship? Here's how we calculate tuition share in "The Price of an Internship."
Dec. 19, 2013, 11 a.m.
Which emergency room will see you the fastest? We've got a handy guide for impatient outpatients.
Dec. 16, 2013, 10:24 a.m.
If you’re a software developer looking to make more of a social impact with your talents, there are plenty of exciting opportunities for you to break into the field of journalism! But what’s it like?
Sep. 26, 2013, 2:20 p.m.
Today’s update to Nonprofit Explorer also includes a free-to-use API that developers can use to access the data behind Nonprofit Explorer programmatically.
May 9, 2013, 2:44 p.m.
Use our database to find almost 616,000 tax-exempt organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download their tax filings going back as far as 2001.
