> Sitting on "A Day of Coding" class for a human interest story doesn't make them "coders".

What does this even entail?

Journalists use code to create visualize complex data[1][2]; design visual stories[3][4]; analyze data to find failures at the local[5][6] and national[7][8][9] levels; and help reporters automate tedious tasks to reveal compelling findings[10][11]. They've also created a very popular Python-based web framework[12], a program to extract data tables from PDFs[13], a service to host source documents[14], and a charting tool used by tens of thousands of people[15], among other useful tools and open-source software used by normal all over the world.

There are entire professional organizations, namely the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting and Investigative Reporters and Editors, dedicated to journalists who know how to code.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/grap...
[3]: https://www.straitstimes.com/m...
[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/projec...
[5]: https://hurricanemariasdead.co...
[6]: https://graphics.wsj.com/medic...
[7]: https://projects.tampabay.com/...
[8]: https://www.reuters.com/invest...
[9]: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
[10]: https://goldsmithawards.org/ho...
[11]: https://doctors.ajc.com/
[12]: https://www.djangoproject.com/
[13]: https://tabula.technology/
[14]: https://www.documentcloud.org/
[15]: https://www.datawrapper.de/

Many journalists know how to code.

When stories about billionaires paying off student loans or, like Bloomberg, donating a large sum to make tuition cheap, I think about the students who missed the opportunity because they weren't in the right class at the right time.

For example, in 2019, Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder and chief executive officer of Vista Equity Partners, was the commencement speaker during Morehouse College's graduation ceremony. During his speech, he announced he would pay off the loan debt for about 400 seniors, which cost about $34 million at the time. A joyous occasion, yes, but imagine being a debt-saddled underclassman or a recent graduate and watching this class gets their loans paid out.

Now, with Bloomberg's donation, imagine being an upperclassman at Johns Hopkins, probably saddled with debt, and enduring a wave of new students who will get the same education for free.

> apparently no private info from customers or sensible sources (if they even have those) was leaked

False. A list of freelancers and all their contact information, including phone numbers and home addresses, was included in the leak.

We don't find out why the carpenter chose not to give out his name until the seventh paragraph. This detail should've been mentioned earlier.

Also, the author's calling AirTags a "GPS tracker" led to an embarrassing correction:

"A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to AirTags as GPS devices. They are a type of locator device, but they are not GPS trackers. The article has been corrected.

Ironically, there's a cottage industry of journalists who know how to code.

This is why you should *always* chat on invite-only servers.

In this environment, renting is better.

IRC exists.

Godzilla Minus One will be out for streaming in due time. What's a little more waiting?

You don't watch Villeneuve films for the acting or script. You watch them for the visuals.

Expected him to say his brother was a long-time Redditor, received an invitation to purchase shares, and is now sitting pretty after selling his lot for a van-load of cash.

Don't post your nudes for the entire world to see. Simple as that.

This is the same project that got busted for injecting softcore, furry porn into the source code last year.