Journalists need|don’t need to learn programming
There’s a minor meme going around right now that goes like this: Let’s teach programmers journalism. But I’m a journalist and want to learn, where’s my scholarship? Journalists don’t need to learn to program. Yes they do. No they don’t.
William Hartnett does a pretty good job of getting at some of my feelings on this but here’s one more: Journalists don’t need to learn how to code if all you think journalism can be is words/pictures/video.
Not to sound like Morpheus in the Matrix talking about what is real ...
