[knowtheory]

Just to add to that, there's been a huge uptick and interest in developers in the newsroom. The focus on data driven journalism has just kept increasing over the past couple years (full disclosure, I work for a non-profit that does tech training for investigative journalists).

I agree that the industry hasn't shaken totally free of the fucked up financial straights they got themselves into, but as it stands, there are way more developer jobs working on actual journalism projects (not building or maintaining CMSes) than there are developers to fill them (just see http://www.newsnerdjobs.com/ for some examples).

But ultimately you're absolutely right, there are tradeoffs, and working for an insolvent company is one of the ones you have to watch out for, although that's true out in startup land as well. Depends what you're looking for i suppose!

I'd be curious to hear more about what you worked on over at AJC (some of my coworkers were investigative reporters there a few years ago).

[zellyn]

This brings up an important point I should have made earlier: I left the AJC three and a half years ago now, and Cox Media Group digital (if you're in Atlanta and want to work on Python/Django, you should definitely check them out) just under two and half years ago, so I am no longer current.