Tagged: Journalism

Flying High, Saving Lives

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I’ll admit, this is a story I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. This is a sound slideshow profiling the lead base aviation manager of the ShandsCair program, Mark Womack, at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. Womack oversees all the bases of ShandsCair, as well as the program’s pilots and technicians, and he loves […]

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Should Coding Be Added to the Journalists’ Program?

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Yes, journalists should learn how to program. No, not every journalist should learn it right now -- just those who want to stay in the industry for another ten years.

— PBS Mediashift's Roland Legrand

A major topic of discussion in the journalism industry is whether journalists should be learning how to code. The discussion represents the digital age as well as the evolution of the field itself. While there are arguments both in favor of and against having journalists learning to program, it appears the general consensus is that […]

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Response to “Page One”

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One of the themes treated in the New York Times documentary “Page One” is the role of traditional media, particularly newspapers, in getting information out to the general public. Two examples are used, both involving WikiLeaks: in the first, WikiLeaks posted video of a Reuters reporter being fired at by American air units after the […]

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