Re:Rethinking J-school
by obstacle1 on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:32AM
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The author didn't suggest that you had to major in a subject to learn it. Her thesis is that it's wrong for journalism programs to not require stats, math, and coding courses, since modern journos must do stats, math, and coding.
>My frustrations are with the lack of an applicable concentration that reflects the state of the news industry in 2013.
>How is it okay that journalism students are able to graduate without ever taking a real statistics or mathematics class, given the crazy demand for data journalists? Or without ever taking a programming class?
>My frustrations are with the lack of an applicable concentration that reflects the state of the news industry in 2013.
>How is it okay that journalism students are able to graduate without ever taking a real statistics or mathematics class, given the crazy demand for data journalists? Or without ever taking a programming class?