When we think of traditional news gatherers, we might conjure up the image of an obstreperous character brazenly hassling a slimy official for the real story — or hovering paparazzi harassing a poor celebrity innocently shopping for handbags in Beverly Hills. However, there have been some technology-driven changes since Hollywood handed us those stock characters that could severely alter the picture. Today, your jaded, hard-drinking, courtroom-loitering newsman could just as well be represented on the silver-screen by an enthusiastic bookworm-like computer geek, aka a “data journalist.”
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Tech's Hard-Boiled Progeny: The Data Journalist
Posted by: Patrick Nelson April 16, 2013 05:00 AMWhen we think of traditional news gatherers, we might conjure up the image of an obstreperous character brazenly hassling a slimy official for the real story — or hovering paparazzi harassing a poor celebrity innocently shopping for handbags in Beverly Hills. However, there have been some technology-driven changes since Hollywood handed us those stock characters that could severely alter the picture. Today, your jaded, hard-drinking, courtroom-loitering newsman could just as well be represented on the silver-screen by an enthusiastic bookworm-like computer geek, aka a “data journalist.”