
Editor of Interactive News, The New York Times
Aron Pilhofer is the founding editor of the Interactive News team at The New York Times. His team blends journalism and technology to enhance The Times's reporting online through social media, community and dynamic, data-driven Web applications.
He is also co-founder of DocumentCloud.org, a project designed to improve journalism by making source documents easier find, search, analyze and share online.
He is also founder of Hacks and Hackers, an organization designed to bring journalists and technologists together. Founded in 2009, the group now has dozens of chapters and more than 10,000 members worldwide.
Aron joined The Times in 2005 as a projects editor on the paper's newly expanded computer-assisted reporting team, where he specialized in stories related to money, politics and influence for the politics desk and Washington bureau.