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A bit offtopic, but does anyone who has worked with media organisations in the past know, how much an individual developer time is spent in creating an interactive feature report like this? Also, are there publishing tools that allow creation by something like drag and drop in the CMS or is it often custom frontend code?

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My understanding is that these places slowly accumulate their own libraries for some semi-automated framework (like svelte for example, though I don’t think this is svelte). This knowledge comes from my working in a media watchdog, and my own analysis of the New York Times’ code so the economist may be different. I also (obviously) don’t have first class access to these things only what we’ve been able to probe using osint tools and analyzing the javascript/html/css.

Ah, thanks for the insight. That would make sense, I will try to probe around more to see if it is possible to make them more accessible to other media publications as well.

The Australian public broadcaster open sources all its infrastructure for their interactive features: https://github.com/abcnews

It's all very bespoke.

Thanks. Will take a look.

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