{"id":17662,"date":"2014-04-23T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=17662"},"modified":"2014-04-23T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:23:22","slug":"cardiff-university-now-offering-computational-journalism-masters-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/23\/cardiff-university-now-offering-computational-journalism-masters-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff University Now Offering Computational Journalism Masters Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/jomec\/degreeprogrammes\/pgmasters\/ma_computational_journalism\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17663\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wmsc_computational_journalism1.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wmsc_computational_journalism1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wmsc_computational_journalism1-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>In September, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cardiff University<\/a> will introduce a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/jomec\/degreeprogrammes\/pgmasters\/ma_computational_journalism\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Computational Journalism Master&#8217;s degree<\/a>\u00a0in an effort to supply the industry with more journalists with coding abilities. The United Kingdom-based school was motivated to offer the new program after various professionals in the digital journalism field expressed a need for graduates with skill sets that straddle the fields of journalism and computing.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff joins US colleges, like <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.journalism.co.uk\/2010\/04\/08\/wired-com-columbia-to-offer-joint-computer-science-and-journalism-degree\/\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia University<\/a>, who have launched similar programs.\u00a0This area &#8220;doesn&#8217;t replace traditional journalism,&#8221; Richard Sambrook, a professor of journalism at Cardiff University\u00a0told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/cardiff-university-introduces-computational-journalism-masters\/s2\/a556476\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journalism.co.uk<\/a>. &#8220;But there is a market now for people able to code and understand core principles of journalism as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And for those with an entrepreneurial edge, gaining such skills can support their quest to explore new ideas or ventures, he added, as &#8220;the industry is wide open to that at the moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff&#8217;s course will begin by covering the foundation skills of both journalism and coding, exposing students to the basics of computing languages like Python and web app development.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the \u00a0new Masters program visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/jomec\/degreeprogrammes\/pgmasters\/ma_computational_journalism\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cardiff.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, Cardiff University will introduce a new\u00a0Computational Journalism Master&#8217;s degree\u00a0in an effort to supply the industry with more journalists with coding abilities. 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