I don't think the solution is to make journalists skilled programmers, but to provide platforms that make it easy enough to do things like data journalism. I me

I don't think the solution is to make journalists skilled programmers, but to provide platforms that make it easy enough to do things like data journalism. I mean music, architecture, business intelligence, construction, industrial design etc. are all computer aided to large degree and they all mainly practice their individual discipline even if if it now involves some programming. So maybe what we are really is looking for is to combine the journalist with the statistician. Which, I would assume, currently leverages computers more than a journalist does.