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Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by ghaff on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:12PM (#11616527)
I wouldn't use J-School grads as a particular proxy for anything. I've known J-School grads who worked for various IT publications (though not for less conventional pubs like Techcrunch). But then I know a number of WSJ reporters and op-ed (as well as at least one person who moved from IT trades to general business) who don;t have J-School degrees. There are a lot of ways to learn standard journalistic practice without going to school for it.
Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by vemy on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:23PM (#11616609)
Juts like CS schools, I think the quality could be dependent on the specific school they graduated from.
Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by ghaff on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:17PM (#11617627)
This is a bit different. There are some accomplished programmers, software architects, etc. who don't have CS degrees, I think it's fair to say that they are in the distinct minority. On the other hand, I suspect that, among the top tier of journalists (admittedly difficult to measure), the majority--perhaps the great majority--do not have J-School degrees. There are better (e.g. Columbia) and worse journalism schools, for sure. But it's not the sort of prerequisite that other professional degrees can be.
Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by chucksmash on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:39PM (#11617446)
Is it though? I've never run across an MIT grad so maybe the uniformly kickass grammers are hiding further up the curve, but there have certainly been grads of top 10 schools who I naively deferred to (as a junior, self-taught programmer) only to later regret that deference.
Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by trekking101 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:03PM (#11623760)
My point is I would expect to find a heck of a lot more "journalists" working for a traditional media outlet than in the tech press