Most Journalists Lack Web Smarts
from the as-if-we-didn't-know-this-before... dept
A new study shows what most of us knew already. Most journalists lack web "street smarts" and could do with some training. A lot more are using the web as an information source, and correspond with people over email, but few know how to use it well. Of course, the worse journalists are at using the internet, the more room it leaves us at Techdirt to be able to point out the mistakes they've made.
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