The Online Journalism Review has been going through some changes. In general, I've been digging OJR more, mainly because they got a decent RSS feed, but the features have been much deeper recently, and the video journalism project was a nice experiment. Editor-in-chief Robert Niles is exploring new directions for the publication, with a healthy mix of optimism and thoughtful consideration about what's worth doing at OJR. With the support of USC's Annenberg School they have a unique soapbox that affords the potential for big impact.
Found the following quote quite amusing though:
Unfortunately, CARR has remained a specialty within journalism, rather than a core skill. Part of this can be attributed to journalists' collective hostility toward math and science. I've been training journalists in basic math for a decade, and in my experience, it is far easier to teach someone with high math aptitude how to report and write a journalism story than it is to teach a typical journalist math.
There's a bit of rhetoric in journalism education about "understanding an increasingly ccomplex world", but if math/statistical skills are a key tool in understanding complexity (much less computing) what does the above quote portend?