How Computer-Assisted Reporters Evolved into Programmer/Journalists

I see a very clear progression from CAR to the programmer/journalist trend via the web. CAR is meant to be invisible. You analyze a database as part of the reporting process, but you don’t want to clog up a story with too many numbers. The ability to add details online has changed this process. Data has become a part of the story. And that’s the key connection between CAR and programming in journalism: data.

Published August 7, 2009.

Skills: Writing, Blogging, Reporting

Medium: Text

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