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Balance in all things, even venting

By Julie Starr | Published: March 3, 2008
A week or so ago I mentioned angryjournalist.com, a site designed for journalists to vent about all that irks them. To this casual observer the limited choice of adjectives on display is disappointing but the site's clearly hitting the spot - more than 1200 comments had been left at time of writing. But now there's a new development - happyjournalist.com, where journalists can write about what they like about their jobs.
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Make room for a programmer at the news conference table

By Julie Starr | Published: February 22, 2008
Still on the theme of newsroom technology I wanted to point to this post from Rich Gordon on Mediashift Idea Lab about a Knight Foundation initiative to grant journalism scholarships to computer programmers. He notes that Georgia Tech is already running a computational journalism course.
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