An interesting piece here on whether journalists facing the brave new multimeeja world should be learning to code (although perhaps it's unsurprising given it's from a blog called Journalism 2.0).FleetStreetBlues' gut reaction, of course, would be a 'hell no'. Let journalists be journalists, and web monkeys be web monkeys.
But then we read what 'coding' actually is, and apparently it includes the most basic HTML skills. Such as putting in a content management system to make the text on the website come out in bold.
FleetStreetBlues can code already, it seems. FleetStreetBlues is totally ready for 21st century journalism.
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I have this vision of instead a journalist being paired with a cameraman/soundman - they will be paired up with a web developer. The journalist taking audio/video/words/content and the web developer coding it into the right format/display/whatever.
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