Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff

A link published by James Bennett on October 3, 2007. Tagged with journalism, news and programming. No comments posted.

A good article (with a nice plug for Adrian), but the comments reiterate some important points which — having had a while to see and work with a number of news operations — match up with my experience:

  1. Most “traditionally”-trained journalists still don’t really understand the Web.
  2. The average pay in the news industry, regardless of experience or skills, is well below what even an entry-level programmer makes in other industries.

Neither of these bodes well for the future of the industry; newspapers need to sit up and pay attention, or their worst fears of irrelevance are going to come true.

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