Rene Salvatore Assignment #1

Hi my name is René Salvatore I am a sophomore broadcast journalism student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park. I am going to talk about the challenges facing several professional and non-professional journalists these days. The first is the new technology that is being integrated into newsgathering. Journalists are no longer being sent out with an entire team. They can be sent out to shoot, report and edit a story together all on their own. The new term for this is backpack journalism. Older journalists in the field are having new technology thrown at them and being told they need to learn it immediately. Another challenge facing many journalists is the undetermined future of print media. With the world of online journalism not completely figured out yet there is a lack of jobs for print journalists. Newspapers are going under and no one has figured out a way to successfully monetize their online forms. The future is a little uncertain but what many journalists seem to be doing is branding themselves. They are branching out from their network or show and marketing themselves. Many do this via Twitter or Facebook or with their own blogs. Branding oneself as a individual journalist could make one more marketable in the future.