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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Rise of the journalist programmer

Valley Wag has a piece about how more journalists are turning to programming as a way of staying one step ahead of the curve.

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.

I'd definitely say that's true after more than a year in this program.