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Charles Arthur: New to journalism? Learn to code

“All sorts of fields of journalism – basically, any where you’re going to have to keep on top of a lot of data that will be updated, regularly or not – will benefit from being able to analyse and dig...

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Currybet.net: Journalists need to think like programmers

Following on from the recent ‘do journalists need to code’ debate on this blog and elsewhere, Martin Belam argues the answer is both yes and no. [J]ournalists don’t all need to be able to write...

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Poynter Online: How to get data from websites ‘without programming skills’

It’s not enough to copy those numbers into a story; what differentiates reporters from consumers is our ability to analyse data and spot trends. To make data easier to access, reorganise and sort,...

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Working with coders to maximise readership

Bringing coders and journalists together is one of the big issues in newsrooms today, causing many journalists to think about how much coding knowledge they should invest in. The problem is that coding...

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Developers and journalists forging common ground

Back in April 2009 I listened as a group of bloggers at the G20 protests in London sent in reports using the new Audioboo iPhone application. The rules of the game are clearly changing fast, I thought....

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Cindy’s Take on Tech: ‘The Journalist as Programmer’

Cindy Royal, an assistant professor at Texas State University in San Marcos teaching web design and multimedia journalism, has shared details of her paper ‘The Journalist as Programmer: A Case Study of...

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I’m a journalist – should I learn programming?

Many reporters are starting to move on from the world of HTML or CSS coding and getting to grips with more technical programming knowledge. But web development isn’t for everyone, so how do you know if...

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Hacks and Hackers look at health, education and leisure

Online journalism expert Paul Bradshaw gives a detailed post on his experiences of a recent Hacks and Hackers day in Birmingham organised by Scraperwiki, experiences which he claims will “challenge the...

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Washington Post partners with US university to offer journalism scholarship...

Image by espensorvik on Flickr. Some rights reserved The Washington Post and Northwestern University have teamed up to offer a scholarship opportunity to programmers at the university’s Medill School...

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