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Millions in new grants will help journalist hackers create visually striking graphics that will both inform the public and help reporters find patterns they didn't know were there. In the 21st century, a crack reporter's best source for juicy leads might not be pounding the pavement and hounding sources.

If there was any doubt the Obama re-election campaign was going to stomp into new digital territory in the upcoming race, it was erased by today’s announcement that it is appointing uber-hipster and tech rebel Harper Reed as the organization’s CTO. Reed, who is 33 according to the Chicago Tribune , is the former CTO of Threadless, an online clothing company that pioneered crowdsourced design