Posts authored by Reetta Vaahtoranta:


Thursday, 4 February 2021

How technology is powering Covid-19 investigations
Joseph Smith, Michael Barton, Reetta Vaahtoranta

Guardian journalists and software engineers worked together to hold the UK government to account over its response to the pandemic

Scrutinising Covid contracts with TypeScript scrapers reading from Contracts Finder and Tenders Electronic Daily.

Tuesday, 19 January 2021

How technology is powering election coverage
Michael Barton, Joseph Smith, Reetta Vaahtoranta

In the second of three articles, we look at the role of software engineers in analysing online political advertising during the 2019 UK General Election

Facebook ads from the 2019 UK general election.

Tuesday, 12 January 2021

How technology is powering environmental reporting
Michael Barton, Joseph Smith, Reetta Vaahtoranta

In the first of three articles, we look at how Guardian software engineers teamed up with the newsroom to investigate climate lobbying online

Fossil fuel firms’ social media fightback against climate action

Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Development of the live blog at the Guardian
Reetta Vaahtoranta

The live blog is one of the Guardian’s signature digital formats. We look at its history and influence on the tools we build

Sports live blogs appearing on the guardian website