Anthony DeBarros joins DocumentCloud as Director of Product Development

DocumentCloud is pleased to announce that Anthony DeBarros is joining our team as Director of Product Development.

DeBarros joins DocumentCloud from Gannett Digital, where he was Director of Interactive Applications, leading a team that built data-driven interactives for investigations, elections and the Gannett platform as well as publishing tools for the company's journalists. Before joining Gannett Digital, he spent 15 years with USA TODAY as a database editor and investigative journalist, working alongside the newsroom's database team on demographics analysis and investigations. He began his news career as a radio reporter in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a reporter and editor at the Poughkeepsie Journal. He's a 2012 winner of an IRE Service Award for making Census data easily available to journalists. He's also been part of teams whose investigations have received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award, an Education Writers Association award, a Gerald Loeb award and other honors. A native New Yorker transplanted to Virginia, in his spare time he enjoys family, gardening, guitar, film and art.

He can be reached at anthony@documentcloud.org.