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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by reaperducer on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:08PM (#20170660)
This feels strange to me. These are all things I learned in J-school, and instead of a day on each of these topics, we got an entire semester.

Were you doing journalism for a web site?

/Degrees in journalism and communications (not to be confused with a communication degree)

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by Angostura on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:05AM (#20172680)
No. This was in the mid to early 1980s in the UK, for a large B2B computer magazine publisher (VNU). Journalism school really wasn't 'a thing' to nearly the same degree then. Instead you were trained on the job. My degree was biology, but I had worked a lot on the student newspaper.

I don't think this kind of induction training was typical - it was just put on by that particular company at that particular period. But it was very good. Shout out to the trainer who I still remember 30 years later. You were excellent Tim https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-ring-33b7233

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by danso on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:22PM (#20170735)
Yeah I interned and worked at 2 large regional papers and I never got trained in writing or story structure, just on how to use the CMS, LexisNexis, and occasionally the in-house lawyer would come in to do off-the-record q&a’s about legal issues
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