Sarah Harley contrasts a conference she was at on Friday with the NCTJ event the same day: "[A]ttending Friday’s social media seminar in Manchester really brought one issue home to me - the relevance of the journalist is under scrutiny. ... At least part of the [NCTJ] conference considered the skills survey carried out among employers and training providers, and what did the employers want of this august body - shorthand! [D]oesn’t this rather exemplify a gulf between what’s actually going on in a landscape where all the rules of engagement are rapidly shifting and what’s perceived to be the issues within (still largely print-centric) newsrooms?" (Amen.) Read More...