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Need for sustainable developers-slash-journalists « Computing for Sustainability January 16, 2009

A take on the Journalist-Programmer discussion from a computing prof at Otago (NZ):

"There’s no way a bit of database understanding will produce journalists capable of the development on the Times site (Casualties of War for example).   However, it is probably equally “no way” that a bit of journalism bolted on to a Computer Science degree will produce the depth of understanding and craft of a journalist."

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