Via Poynter's The Mechanic and the Muse:

Online Journalism Review features a provocative interview with Adrian Holovaty, editor for editorial innovations at washingtonpost.com, perhaps best known for his ground-breaking one-man site chicagocrime.org, "a freely browsable database of crimes in Chicago." (Typically, we have Jim Romenesko to thank for the link.)

OJR editor Robert Niles opens the interview by asking Holovaty, "how does one "do journalism" through computer programming?"

Read on here.