The germ of the new era of journalism? (Duh… the link first posted here was for another  item. My bad. The link above is to a column asserting that an online news operation could replace the dead-tree press in Chicago. )

The Courant has never been good at training and updating its staff. Like who has time for that? A few people with initiative managed to educate themselves in things such as Excel, Jackhammer, Assembler, Quickbase, and other software. Many don’t even know what those words mean. Some journalists enroll in college courses to learn these new [...]