Remove develop work

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Worried That Journalist Robots Will Replace You? Say “I”

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Both Lohr’s article and a more recent series by Farhad Manjoo in Slate , “ Will Robots Steal Your Job ,” examine the efforts of IT startups to develop software that performs skilled, creative work such as writing. You can already see this direction developing in the field. Without the I , there’s no you.

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This Might Be Big: IDG Enters Content Marketing

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The significance of this development will depend on its implementation, but it has the potential to set off a huge shift in the way B2B publishers operate. Exactly what IDG’s “content development and content optimization services” will consist of is obscured by the typical press release jargon.

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A Lesson from Demand Media: Embrace Your Commodity Content

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The content Demand Media produces is indeed ordinary and uninspired, but for the most part it works. It draws away from their work on high-end content. Likewise, they may lack the web-development resources to build their own systems. That’s a misguided objection. There’s an important role for such low-end content.

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Should Journalists Learn to Code?

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That’s not to say I ever developed much expertise in these languages, but that’s not the point. The benefit of learning some programming is in understanding the medium you’re working in, and in being able to converse with and, more importantly, influence the technical staff that manage it.

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The Shift to New Media Cannot Be Gradual

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The ASBPE/Medill study, announced February 26 , found that editors feel unprepared and undertrained for working in new media. Change the work your editors do accordingly. Though the other, from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) , looked exclusively at consumer magazines, its findings ring true for B2B. Editors, a word to the wise.

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Swabbing the Decks of the Titanic: Why You Should Learn Programming

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As my former colleague implied, even for veteran journalists there’s a benefit to understanding code like HTML and CSS if they do any work online. If you work with web developers and programmers, you’ll have a better idea of what to ask for, and better chances of getting it.

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Paul Conley: Has the Content Marketing Dream Become a Nightmare?

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In the trade magazine business, not generally known for early adoption of new-media developments, Paul Conley is something of an anomaly. Conley is best known, however, for his subsequent work, starting in 2004, as a consultant and blogger. Paul Conley.