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."
Poynter Online: How EveryBlock Code is Being Used to Develop Location-Based Journalism
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 10:02
"Over and over again, the growing importance of location awareness in journalism — the ability to connect the events of the day to a particular spot on the planet — was mentioned, along with EveryBlock's role in paving the way for more news organizations to deliver news by location."
Poynter Online: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter Teaches Computer Science to Newsroom
Thursday, 1 January 2009, 11:29
Daniel Lathrop, an investigative reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is running a year-long course, teaching basic computer science to newsroom colleagues.
Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 06:35
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PDF of a Lawrence Journal-World presentation on building database journalism projects, including their recent piece on crime rates in university halls.
