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Media Strategy and Innovation with Jeff Mignon and Nancy Wang Calling All Coders: Journalism Schools Want You To Save The News As newspapers struggle for viability, and media managers attempt to shift presence to the web, a need has arisen for talent with the technical skills of a programmer and the creative skills of a journalist. Over at TechCrunch, we are fortunate to have talented developers who have poured their blood, sweat and tears into making the site what it is today. Northwestern University’s journalism school is offering free scholarships to software developers so they can further hone their journalism skills and possibly integrate the two for a media company down the line (disclosure: I attended this journalism school). The idea of creating programmers who understand journalism is compelling and brings attention to an important trend taking place in the industry. Hyperlocal news site Everyblock and the St. Some question whether a journalism degree is critical to success as a reporter. Both sides of the journalism school debate can agree on the definite need for programmers in the news space.
Google to Launch Subscription Service Community Information Needs | A project of the John S. and James Videos Account Options Videos Enjoy your holiday favorites on the big screen. Privacy Terms Settings Advertising Business About Flowing Media: Your Data Has Something To Say Journalists need to learn to speak some geek. . . Posted by Tom Foremski - August 17, 2005 . . .and learn to type Journalists have had it far too easy, for far too long, compared with the geek professionals--especially those involved in coding, scripting and building online sites. In those professions you have to upgrade your skills constantly. There's an astounding number of alphabet-soup technology acronyms that you need in your toolkit. Five or six years ago web site developers just needed to know HTML tags and some simple applications and tools. Today they need to know HTML, XML, PHP, PERL, MySQL, Linux, Flash, Javascript, and CSS. Yet journalists barely know how to type, or even how to spell (v. true believe it or not). Most journalists don't know a lick of HTML or even much about their software and hardware beyond the basics familiar to a 10-year-old. That's going to have to change as the print/broadcast world, on which journalism was been built, becomes a mostly online mediasphere (I include the blogosphere in this;-).
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Knight News Challenge: Meet Stroome, the collaborative FlickrWik Stroome began, like so many cool things do, with talking fish. Nonny de la Peña, a veteran journalist, had written a story for The New York Times outlining the sonic mating calls of fish (more specifically: “fish barks, chatter, groans, drones and cries”), and wanted to include video of the noisy-fish phenomenon along with her text. This involved: getting the physical video from scientists at Cornell, waiting for the video to be FedExed to her, trying to edit the video on the Times’ system, and dealing with PC-to-Mac conversion issues — a process, all in all, that took a bunch of patience and several days to complete. Years, in WebJourno Time. Wouldn’t it be great, de la Peña thought, if there were an easy way to store, edit, and share videos? Enter Stroome, the platform that de la Peña and her colleague Tom Grasty created to simplify the notoriously labor-intensive editing-and-sharing process. This is Stroome’s second attempt at a Knight award.
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