About Us
Chase Davis
Chase is an investigative reporter and Web developer who has been building Web applications for more than 10 years.
By day, he is the director of technology at the Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation's oldest non-profit investigative news outlet. He also writes about money and politics issues for California Watch. He worked previously as an investigative reporter at the Houston Chronicle and the Des Moines Register.
Learn more about him at his personal website.
Matt Waite
Matt will be a professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August. Before that he was the senior news technologist at the St. Petersburg Times where he developed PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website.
Before becoming a developer, he was an investigative reporter with more than 10 years of experience. He is also the author of Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss.
Learn more about him at his personal website.
What We Do
Our speciality is working with media organizations, non-profits and journalism startups to provide custom technical services, from Web development and data analysis to database optimization and SEO.
We write code the way good reporters write stories: quickly, concisely and with an eye toward presenting information as cleanly as possible. Because we work at Hot Type part-time, we choose our clients carefully to ensure they receive our full attention.
As journalists ourselves, we understand the evolving media marketplace. Let us give you a hand.
Our Partners
We supplement our expertise by maintaining a large network of collaborators and subcontractors, many of which are well-known for their award-winning work in data journalism. Among them:
Jeremy Bowers: Jeremy is a senior web developer at the Washington Post. Prior to the Post, he was a news technologist at the St. Petersburg Times where he helped develop applications such as Mug Shots and Home Team.
Michael Corey: Michael is the digital innovations editor at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where he develops database applications and helps set the organization's Web strategy. He worked previously at The Des Moines Register.
Kaas and Mulvad: Experienced database journalists Tommy Kaas and Nils Mulvad formed their consulting company in Denmark in 2007. They work with European media organizations and corporations to help them analyze and display data.
Upstatement: A Web development and design firm based in Boston, Upstatement was founded by a team of designers who worked at The Boston Globe. They designed this portfolio site for us, among several others.