Absolutely not, Olga Khazan writes in an Atlantic post that won her a deluge of criticism: "If you want to be a reporter, learning code will not help," Khazan writes. "It will only waste time that you should have been using to write freelance articles or do internships — the real factors that lead to these increasingly scarce positions." Rebuttals from Noah Veltman, Steve Buttry, and others.
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