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Free the Files
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Al Shaw
March 20, 2013
No windows, one exit, free drinks: Building a crowdsourcing project with casino-driven design
“Casino-driven design is all about reducing friction to participation.”
Amanda Zamora
December 12, 2012
Crowdsourcing campaign spending: What ProPublica learned from Free the Files
The nonprofit’s ambitious effort got hundreds of readers to sift through television ad spending records. Here’s what they learned along the way.
Adrienne LaFrance
September 27, 2012
Free the Files! ProPublica taps the crowd for a database-building sprint to election day
The site wants your help assembling a database of television ad buys in swing states.
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