How interesting, I was just reading some articles [1] [2] about learning to think like a programmer and program. Both mention how beneficial it is for journalists to code and think like a coder.

While they mainly talk about saving time with repetitive tasks or compiling/understanding complex data, I suppose now its good for job security too...

[1] http://infovore.org/archives/2009/01/22/learning-to-think-li...

[2] http://www.charlesarthur.com/blog/?p=1098