The Knight News Foundation has been trying to stimulate this market for hybrid programmer/journos for years. I think it's a great idea. Too many stories have go

The Knight News Foundation has been trying to stimulate this market for hybrid programmer/journos for years. I think it's a great idea. Too many stories have gone to print without any facts to back them up. Many more haven't even been reported because nobody has the skill to discover them. The Foundation is funding a sector that the industry has been largely ignoring much to its detriment. Most of the information out there is largely electronic. The volumes of it are too much to handle by a single human. Why not use a computer to parse, munge, and analyze it?