I've been on both sides of this - scientist and science journalist, tech media (Economist, Wired) and tech CEO - and both sides sometimes don't understand the other That said, at least most science writers have degrees in science. I don't find that true of most tech reporters
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“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” I think of this quote (Einstein?) when people in tech gripe that reporters are not insiders at their company, and so cannot say anything accurate about their products or effects of them on society.
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Replying to @lorakolodny @chr1sa and
Adding: I’m glad I worked in interactive before reporting on tech companies. But I don’t think reporters require a comp sci or other engineering degree to be absolutely effective (even great) at their jobs in news.
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Replying to @lorakolodny @zeynep and
Maybe not require, but I do think it would be an asset. If you wouldn't hire a science writer without a science degree (and most publications wouldn't), why should tech be different? Or economics, for that matter?
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seems credentialist. even if it could help. (plus, extend the notion- why fund ceos who don’t have business degrees? or fund a tech ceo who hails from a media background? etc.)
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Replying to @lorakolodny @chr1sa and
Maybe "with a science background" would be better phrasing, but there's not much of a feedback loop for bad tech journalism, whereas the feedback loop for "you funded an incompetent know-nothing CEO" is "and the company promptly died." (VCs still do it! But not good ones.)
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Replying to @rezendi @lorakolodny and
If there _were_ a feedback loop for bad tech journalism, I think this problem would largely go away. But if the only feedback is "tech people complain about their coverage," well, this can be spun as "saying things they don't want told" as opposed to "WTF that's just not true."
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Replying to @antoniogm @rezendi and
“The journalists” are no more a monolith than “the engineers.”
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There is no "they" but there is incentive structures, cultures, and lifestyles that make certain things much easier than others—for all industries/jobs. For ex, there won't be a rogue tech CEO with a heart of gold who'll solve this for us. It's not the nature of the thing.
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