Slightly off topic, but anyone else find news organizations completely disingenuous and opaque about their interest in incorporating developers into the newsroom and about their hiring practices? People complain about SV/tech company hiring practices, but at least it's easy to get in touch with someone and get the process started.<p>In my experience news organizations claim to always be hiring & to have trouble finding developers but it's impossible to get anyone to actually speak with you about open positions or what kind of background a news org looks for in devs. I regularly attend the hacks & hackers data journalism meetup in New York and I've met other devs who have told me they have the same experience. And these are experts with portfolio projects easily making 100k+ knowing that they are going to take a pay cut to move into the news industry. Yet the news industry cries out that there is a lack of talent. It blows my mind.<p>Someone in tech needs to start a modern news agency without all the horrible institutional inertia possessed by companies like the New York Times and take advantage of all the talent out there looking to do something more meaningful than ecommerce apps. Because news agencies are behind the times and not taking advantage of the talent that is dying to make an impact.