Allison Gehring
JOUR 203 Assignment 1
The biggest challenge of new media journalism for me will be balancing all of the skills necessary to be successful. In the past, journalists could easily get jobs by being exceptional at one specific skill. Back then, if someone was great at shooting video, or writing, or editing, they were pretty much guaranteed a job. In this era of new media journalism, the ideal journalist is expected to know how to do it all. They can go out and shoot and produce their own stories using the technology available. Instead of only being a journalist for television or for print, there is a lot of overlap with online journalism and social networking. The challenge comes because even though we are in journalism school to learn these skills, protocol could change by the time we are ready to enter the workforce because of the rapidness with which technology changes. There will always be a new skill to learn or master.
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