Martin Belam’s currybetdotnet: Do journalists need to learn to be programmers? Yes. And no.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 10:11
Martin Belam: "As a general rule of thumb, if any of the jobs you do in your day to day working involve repeatedly pressing the same sequence of keys on your keyboard, involves you cutting'n'pasting text from one place to another, or doing the same thing over and over again like resizing images, it is almost certain that investing a little time in programming a script will make that task easier."
Gawker: Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 08:59
Ryan Tate: "Learning to program is yet another way journalists are becoming generalists, more like pamphleteer, typesetter, postmaster and newspaper publisher Ben Franklin and his fellow ink-stained polymaths than highly specialized publishing types like Bob Woodward, Annie Leibovitz or Mario Garcia. Your typical professional blogger might juggle tasks requiring functional knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, video recording, video editing, video capture, podcasting, and CSS, all to complete tasks that used to be other people's problems, if they existed at all: production, design, IT, etc."
MediaGuardian: Will journalists of the future need to know how to code?
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 08:57
"DoctorFegg" in the comments: "Of course, in theory you have a digital department to do this. But, well, good luck with that. In my experience the small companies simply don't have the staff, whereas the big ones have an inflexible company-wide architecture that simply doesn't allow for local initiative – look at all those dreary identikit "this is…" sites. It's the same as it's always been. On small titles, whether they're magazines or newspapers, you can't get too precious about your job title. If something will help the magazine, you roll up your sleeves and do it."
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 20:36
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"Recently, I argued that some journalists should learn how to program. Here’s a practical example why."
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 17:12
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"Journalists don’t need to learn how to code if all you think journalism can be is words/pictures/video."
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 09:30
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William Hartnett argues that journalists should know enough code to perform basic tasks for themselves, not least to free up their developers’ time to focus on more complex issues. Spot on.
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 23:13
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"[T]he pressing need is not for people who can write code with one hand and stories with the other. What journalists do need is working digital literacy."
