The Big Conundrum: Should Journalists Learn Code?
Via the American Journalism Review
In the new multimedia world journalists inhabit, Fernando Diaz, the managing editor of Hoy, Chicago’s Spanish-language daily, is placing his bets on computer codes.
His last two hires were both developers: Nick Bennett, who has extensive experience in data mining, software development and Python (a programming language) and Lucio Villa, a computer developer who is also a photojournalist.
“Technology is a stronger bet than video for most news organizations because they will never be able to monetize their video enough to pay for the folks producing it,” said Diaz, who has been managing editor at the Tribune Media Group publication since 2010. “Technology investments, however, will scale, and the proof is obvious among the legacy leaders and the startups.”
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