Coral Project’s First Product Aims to Help Publishers Find Their Best Contributors

In a guest blog post, The Post’s Director of Digital News Projects Greg Barber explains the first product to come out of The Coral Project, a collaboration between The Post, The New York Times, and the Mozilla Foundation that is focused on creating an open-source community platform for publishers and is funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation.   Comment sections on news sites are getting a lot of bad press these days. And why wouldn’t they? They can be uncivil, profane, impenetrably longwinded, or even personally intimidating.