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Re:Rethinking J-school by nopal on Sunday April 28, 2013 @07:34AM (#5620890)
To the author: since you're at Northwestern, don't forget about Rich Gordon [1]. He's the guy who started the scholarship program to bring working programmers to Medill to learn journalism [2].

To hackers: check out [2]. You can get a scholarship to learn journalism at one of the best schools in the nation.

[1] http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/faculty/journalismfulltim... [2] http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/admissions/page.aspx?id=5...

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Re:Rethinking J-school by whimsicality on Monday May 06, 2013 @02:11AM (#5661119)
Author here.

Re [1]: True. But (a) that's a grad program and (b) it's aimed at giving programmers a journalism education, not teaching journalists how to code.

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