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A few years before they shut operations here, I'd met a few engineers/journalists at Al Jazeera at a bar. They were gushing about how much the company had embr
by busterarm 6y ago
A few years before they shut operations here, I'd met a few engineers/journalists at Al Jazeera at a bar. They were gushing about how much the company had embraced tech and how they were having engineers & data scientists work together with journalists on breaking new stories. That included cross-training engineers to do passable journalism.
It seemed like they had a dream job and they were really keen on recruiting every decent engineer they could find.
Sad to see how that all ended up.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoI work in media, that is how I always saw the New York Times, especially seeing as Mike Bostock came out of that camp. I'm disappointed to hear they weren't much better than most [traditional] media companies when it comes to the digital approach, at least in HR. The NYT is still in a whole other league over most media companies for their digital product and development.