> I have a suspicion that what newspaper companies want is not what is taught in journalism school. You are correct, but not in the way that you intend. Journ

> I have a suspicion that what newspaper companies want is not what is taught in journalism school. You are correct, but not in the way that you intend. Journalism schools are even slower moving than the news industry. There are pockets of the news world who realize they need data analysis skills and programming talent (at prices they can afford). Journalism schools, by and large, have no idea what to do about this, even if they recognize the need, and few plans on how to bridge this gap. The Knight Foundation & Mozilla are making an effort to recruit programmers to the news world through efforts like Source (http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/ http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/ ) and the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellowships (http://www.mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/ http://www.mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/ ). (In fact I'm one of the earlier programmers insnared by their machinations, and i now work on DocumentCloud at the journalism non-profit Investigative Reporters & Editors)