Why are News Organizations Letting Journalists go but Recruiting Technologists?

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"(Interviewee) What skills do you need when you are building stories that are digital from the beginning? You need developers, people who can do still images, multi-media, video and design … The people I need to do that are almost certainly not in newsrooms."   A single ratio came to capture the fundamental shift taking place in news organisations as I researched my book Innovators in Digital News, the ratio of digital technologists to journalists.

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