re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

You’d be amazed how much journalism today is done via e-mail exchanges, chat, etc. It’s work to get student journalists to leave the newsroom and go talk to people. I suspect it will only get worse as tech advances.

I think, to some extent, data journalism is this problem writ large - we can just use numbers to tell the story. Don’t get me wrong, data journalism has done some wonderful things, exposed some rather large problems, etc., and I’m glad it’s here. But it’s not a silver bullet.