Mike Tigas

Mike Tigas is a journalist and technologist at ProPublica, focusing on civic data, digital security & privacy, and online censorship. In addition to reporting and developing tools and interactives, he trains journalists on data analysis and operational security at a wide variety of workshops and conferences.

Outside of his work at ProPublica, he is a lead developer of Tabula (an award-winning data extraction tool for PDF files) and Onion Browser (a Tor-powered web browser for iPhone and iPad).

He was previously a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow and studied computer science and convergence journalism at the University of Missouri.