Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom?

How do you merge the culture of the programming environment with the culture of the newsroom?

“You need to go do what you’re being asked to build,” he [Matt Waite] said. “Spend a night on the sports copy desk taking high school football scores and you’ll get an idea of what a football score taking app should do, no matter what the editor is telling you.”

Similarly, journalists would do well to sit with a programmer and watch their ideas get turned into an app.

Published October 19, 2009.

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