Coding for Journalists: Why It’s Useful & Where to Start
WEBJul 17, 2024 · Why should journalists learn to code? Journalists can benefit from coding knowledge in several ways. Not only can it help data journalists scrape and analyze large datasets, but it can also...
CodeActually: Coding Tutorials for Journalists and Communicators
WEBThe CodeActually platform provides the basics of programming delivered with journalistic examples, context and support. This project is inspired by the excellent interactive data journalism work done by The New York Times, ProPublica, The …
Coding for Journalists - Read the Docs
WEBCoding for Journalists. This class is an evolving introduction to coding and the Python programming language for journalists. In addition to a tour of the fundamentals, it spans nine basic projects to get you started.
In Code We Trust? Assessing Code’s Role as a Mediator of Power …
WEBSep 19, 2024 · The authors call for digital journalism studies scholars to critically engage with and leverage automated technologies to make sense of the challenges of understanding code, given the increasingly central role of code to the production of news.
The journalist’s guide to coding: Part I - Interhacktives
WEBFeb 25, 2020 · Journalists use coding for two main purposes: Analysis and Storytelling. Analysis refers to researching a topic, typically with the help of data. The journocoder (journalist/coder) sources datasets and carries through with some data wrangling in order to uncover unusual patterns, changes, or trends that could make a good story.
A guide to online tutorials for the code-curious journalist
WEBOct 7, 2014 · Googling “journalism” + “coding” serves as an omnipresent reminder. Pieces about why journalists need to integrate technology skills into their repertoire have become commonplace.
Coding for journalists: 10 programming concepts it helps to
WEBJun 9, 2015 · 1. If you’re looking to get into coding chances are you’ll stumble across a raft of jargon which can be off-putting, especially in tutorials which are oblivious to your lack of previous...
A guide to online tutorials for the code-curious journalist
WEBAug 28, 2013 · Googling “journalism” + “coding” serves as an omnipresent reminder. Pieces about why journalists need to integrate technology skills into their repertoire have become commonplace. Last year, Neiman Journalism Lab took on journalism education , and a number of tech-focused publications like Gigaom and MediaShift have weighed in …
How coding can change the very journalism we do - OpenNews
WEBJan 23, 2023 · Coding facilitates “generative journalism,” a concept pioneered at places like ProPublica, L.A. Times, and NPR. Imagine a big, multi-faceted database that encompasses a system as a whole and allows one to run a practically infinite number of queries that test numerous hypotheses.
How journalists can get started with coding
WEBOct 30, 2018 · Increasingly, journalists are working with programmers to design interactive stories on the web, and if you know what’s possible before you get to the editing desk (or just as important, what’s not possible), you can flesh out a much more dynamic story and design your reporting process around that.