In America, programmers are retrained to journalists

This news was lost on the background of the Knight Foundation's announcement of the News Challenge winners, whose prize fund was about $ 12 million in grants to create new types of journalistic communities. The most interesting winner was Rich Gordon from the School of Journalism. Joseph Medillus at Northwestern University, received a grant of $ 639 thousand

The main idea of ​​Gordon is to help involve more people in the world of journalism, like Adrian Holoveti (also a prize winner). Adrian is an unmatched programmer with the soul of a journalist.

Rich will spend a grant from the Knight Foundation to create a curriculum that blends computer science and journalism in order to replenish IT news sites. He wants to give knowledge of the graduates of the journalistic program at the School of Journalism. Medillus, so that they have the education and programming experience.
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Rich plans to launch this program this fall. If anyone is interested, you can read more about the reception here .