AHCJ member Daniel Lathrop, who has been the chief digital strategist for InvestigateWest since its July 2009 launch, will be joining the Dallas Morning News on March 22 as its first news applications editor.
Lathrop will help the paper identify and obtain databases of public information. He also will be responsible for producing the interfaces through which readers can use those databases.
Lathrop is co-editor of the just-released book “Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice,” published by O’Reilly media.
