Comments on: Skillset of the journalist of the future http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/ A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:06:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: New PR http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-15376 New PR Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:13:22 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-15376 <strong>The skill set of the journalist of the future...</strong> What skills does the journalist of the future need? Martin Stabe’s blog has a good discussion about what IT skills journalists need to excel in their profession. It’s getting quite geeky.... The skill set of the journalist of the future…

What skills does the journalist of the future need? Martin Stabe’s blog has a good discussion about what IT skills journalists need to excel in their profession. It’s getting quite geeky….

]]> By: Strive Notes » Friday’s five: March 9th http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-15221 Strive Notes » Friday’s five: March 9th Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:58:51 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-15221 [...] What skills does the journalist of the future need? Martin Stabe’s blog has a good discussion about what IT skills journalists need to excel in their profession. [...] [...] What skills does the journalist of the future need? Martin Stabe’s blog has a good discussion about what IT skills journalists need to excel in their profession. [...]

]]> By: mikewhills http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14942 mikewhills Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:02:41 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14942 It's an interesting turn around for the Tribune. I did some work out there at the end of 2005 and they were just about to disband the multimedia team. At the time they were doing some really interesting projects and a few writers had a 'flash journalist' assigned to them to present their stories visually. Unfortunately they said because the paper sales were declining faster than ever they could no longer afford to keep the department going. Hopefully this a sign they realise a better multimedia team might help to reverse the company's fortunes. As for courses, I know the Journalism BA at Kingston requires students to keep a blog for at least one module and another one gets the students working with Dreamweaver. Not great, but a start. It’s an interesting turn around for the Tribune. I did some work out there at the end of 2005 and they were just about to disband the multimedia team. At the time they were doing some really interesting projects and a few writers had a ‘flash journalist’ assigned to them to present their stories visually. Unfortunately they said because the paper sales were declining faster than ever they could no longer afford to keep the department going. Hopefully this a sign they realise a better multimedia team might help to reverse the company’s fortunes.

As for courses, I know the Journalism BA at Kingston requires students to keep a blog for at least one module and another one gets the students working with Dreamweaver. Not great, but a start.

]]> By: Martin http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14922 Martin Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:47:55 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14922 <em>But when you kit people out with these skills - will they still want to be journalists! I think they’ll be attractive to a whole range of employers…</em> Indeed. I expect media companies' salary offers for relatively junior people with these skills will have to become far more "competitive" — with the sort of professional services firms that would no doubt poach people with these skills. I'm really glad City is looking at this stuff. I was there as a postgrad in 2004-5, and we learned precisely nothing in this area. Not even Flash. OK, there was some basic HTML in the form of learning Dreamweaver, but not to a high enough standard to take someone from novice to employable as an online producer. Beyond not being able to do CAR investigations and online databases, what worries me is that all the professions journalists deal with — particularly in big business and government — are becoming far more sophisticated in gathering, manipulating and presenting data. We are being intellectually outgunned by the people we are supposed to hold to account. But when you kit people out with these skills - will they still want to be journalists! I think they’ll be attractive to a whole range of employers…

Indeed. I expect media companies’ salary offers for relatively junior people with these skills will have to become far more “competitive” — with the sort of professional services firms that would no doubt poach people with these skills.

I’m really glad City is looking at this stuff. I was there as a postgrad in 2004-5, and we learned precisely nothing in this area. Not even Flash. OK, there was some basic HTML in the form of learning Dreamweaver, but not to a high enough standard to take someone from novice to employable as an online producer.

Beyond not being able to do CAR investigations and online databases, what worries me is that all the professions journalists deal with — particularly in big business and government — are becoming far more sophisticated in gathering, manipulating and presenting data.

We are being intellectually outgunned by the people we are supposed to hold to account.

]]> By: Kristine http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14920 Kristine Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:01:47 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14920 By the way, this is another good reason why I think journos should have first degrees, it's really key to equipping you for critical thinking. You would probably have received stats training from doing sociology, me from doing pol sci, prior to journalism By the way, this is another good reason why I think journos should have first degrees, it’s really key to equipping you for critical thinking. You would probably have received stats training from doing sociology, me from doing pol sci, prior to journalism

]]> By: Kristine http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14919 Kristine Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:52:53 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14919 God, no. I was at City 2000 - 2001, back then they were teaching 'electronic journalism', taught very well, but a world apart from the demands of online journalism, or the what is required to adapt to the online world, today. Luckily I had friends who started one of the first blogging companies, fed me with books, and at some point just set up a blog for me to get me out of my one-track-old-journalism-mindset. I had a friend who attended Missouri School of Journalism, US, much further ahead technologically than City, partly due such simple things as having better funding. I think things are changing faster for the better in the US, at least at some uni's, but Scandinavia is much behind even the UK in this respect. Scary... God, no. I was at City 2000 - 2001, back then they were teaching ‘electronic journalism’, taught very well, but a world apart from the demands of online journalism, or the what is required to adapt to the online world, today. Luckily I had friends who started one of the first blogging companies, fed me with books, and at some point just set up a blog for me to get me out of my one-track-old-journalism-mindset. I had a friend who attended Missouri School of Journalism, US, much further ahead technologically than City, partly due such simple things as having better funding. I think things are changing faster for the better in the US, at least at some uni’s, but Scandinavia is much behind even the UK in this respect. Scary…

]]> By: Adrian Monck http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14918 Adrian Monck Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:45:58 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-14918 Well you do stats as part of the basic combined honours journalism BA (Hons) programme at City...and we're about to start licensing some software apps to do the kinds of stats work Holovaty is talking about, but also to do some more sophisticated investigative work. But when you kit people out with these skills - will they still want to be journalists! I think they'll be attractive to a whole range of employers... Well you do stats as part of the basic combined honours journalism BA (Hons) programme at City…and we’re about to start licensing some software apps to do the kinds of stats work Holovaty is talking about, but also to do some more sophisticated investigative work. But when you kit people out with these skills - will they still want to be journalists! I think they’ll be attractive to a whole range of employers…

]]> By: Reporters http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16397 Reporters Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16397 <!--%kramer-pre%-->Martin Stabe è convinto<!--%kramer-post%--> Martin Stabe è convinto

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]]> By: Best of the journalism blogs http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16399 Best of the journalism blogs Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16399 <!--%kramer-pre%-->Online video is "fundamentally different from television." You don't have to convince me. Just look at Richard Koci Hernandez's train story (go to Videos, then Introduction). A lot of people have di... Skillset of the journalist of the future The Chicago Tribune’s interactive division is hoping to hire a journalist specialising in interactive database production of the sort Adrian Holovaty has been advocating. The requirements for the j...<!--%kramer-post%--> Online video is “fundamentally different from television.” You don’t have to convince me. Just look at Richard Koci Hernandez’s train story (go to Videos, then Introduction). A lot of people have di… Skillset of the journalist of the future The Chicago Tribune’s interactive division is hoping to hire a journalist specialising in interactive database production of the sort Adrian Holovaty has been advocating. The requirements for the j…

]]> By: Cyril’s Press Pass http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16400 Cyril’s Press Pass Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16400 <!--%kramer-pre%-->Skillset of the journalist future “A journalism or English graduate with quantitative and technical skills to go with a deep understanding of how the web works. There aren’t many people with that skillset.” I guess for any journalist, the best place to learn is in the workplace.<!--%kramer-post%--> Skillset of the journalist future “A journalism or English graduate with quantitative and technical skills to go with a deep understanding of how the web works. There aren’t many people with that skillset.” I guess for any journalist, the best place to learn is in the workplace.

]]> By: welcome to open lesson http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16401 welcome to open lesson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/04/skillset-of-the-journalist-of-the-future/#comment-16401 <!--%kramer-pre%--> Skillset of the journalist of the future<!--%kramer-post%--> Skillset of the journalist of the future

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