Stephen Colbert’s Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News

Cenac and our head writer, Hallie Haglund, another “Daily Show” alum, had convened the meeting to train us in Scripto, an app for writing and producing television. He had joined the staff at the suggestion of the tech writer and software consultant Paul Ford—like Foster, an occasional contributor to The New Yorker—who had recently responded to a vague Reddit listing: “ ‘The Colbert Report’ is looking for programmers.” Scripto was conceived at the end of 2010, when Stephen Colbert and one of his writers, Rob Dubbin, a longtime amateur coder, first discussed making a bespoke drafting program for the staff.

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