Just how much do you need to know about “new media” to get a job in TV news? It depends on who you ask. Gary Holmes, news director at Capital News 9 in Albany, NY, says it’s a good thing to be “tech savvy” these days. “Anything you can do to show your versatility makes [...]
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Here’s some good advice for new and would-be journalists: launch your own Web site (or blog) and do it now. The suggestion comes from Larry Atkins, who teaches journalism at Temple University and Arcadia University just outside Philadelphia. In a piece at the newly revived Online Journalism Review, Atkins argues that building a Web site [...]
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National Public Radio is reinventing itself as a multimedia news organization, and is retraining its staff for this new mission. In the latest issue of American Journalism Review, Jennifer Doroh reports that NPR hopes to have 450 staffers up to speed in multimedia by this time next year. So what are they learning? Arts and [...]
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