They're Seeking Online Journalists
Go to the Web, young journalist!There never has been a better time to get into Web journalism. We are making money, we are hiring, and we are actively searching for new, innovative ideas. After ten years, there are no veterans in this field. This is your chance to be among the first.
So, have you built a Web page as part of a student project or on your own? Do you know basic HTML? Do you work on the student newspaper website? Do you frequent Internet news sites? Do you use an RSS reader? Do you podcast? Did you ask to shadow the Web producers for a few days at your last internship? An affinity for our medium is essential.I also need people who think in multimedia. So if you're a broadcast major, take print courses, or visa versa. Do a Web project. Have you ever storyboarded a reporting effort for a Flash presentation? (In truth, we don't do much Flash at our shop, and you'll find that's normal at news websites, so Flash skills are usually a bonus, not a requirement.) You have to know how to take anything that can be digitized and present it in a uniquely compelling way for the Web.
This is essential because you will be mentoring reporters from your legacy newsroom who need insight into how to present their work for a Web audience. You must be the one who knows that source documentation can make a deep, rich Web piece or database. You should know how to write a TV-style voiceover script to marry to photos for a narrated slide show. You must dream up the idea to take the sales tax data a reporter compiled and make an interface that lets individuals put in their own grocery bill to find out in which county they get the biggest break.
Do you keep a blog? Why not? There has never been an easier way to publish your journalism for an audience. So become a journalist online. Blog your hobby or your summer in Europe -- like a reporter, not an opinion columnist. An understanding of how the blogosphere intersects with news is increasingly important as we tackle the two-way nature of the Internet today. (One caveat: Your MySpace musings may make you a blogging expert, but it doesn't qualify as journalism. In fact, you can count on us finding that frat party confession and photo en déshabillé, so ask yourself whether that's the image you wish to project when seeking a job.)
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Rupert Murdoch telling people what Journalism should be? Kind of scary, but I guess he's right, Media outlets must adapt to the times and be able to provide listeners/readers with up to the minute information. The big problem with this of course is that the rush to put out all the information available may cause news outlets to print and broadcast information that has not been checked and double checked for accuracy.
It has always been my personal preference to work in the field of online journalism. This is mostly because it is more timely then print journalism in my opinion and I enjoy working online in general. This article was of great interest to me as I begin my search for internships as well as summer jobs.
There were times when only select groups of our society had television and internet access. At these times print journalism was dominant for that reason. Not everyone could log onto their computers at 2:00am and check what was going on in the world or turn on MSNBC or CNN. Now that technology is becoming more widespread in the world, print journalism is drying up a bit.
When I went home for Christmas a man that was visiting my Dad asked what I was going to school for and I said to become a journalist. He laughed and said that print journalism was dead. I highly disagree. I don't think it will ever become obsolete, but it will lose popularity in the coming years.
I think this points to the value of the New Media Journalism curriculum rather well.
I'm starting to hunt for an internship, and I'm really excited about what's out there.
This is good news. I want to have a good background in new media as well as traditional journalism.
Sometimes during my internship, I would hear about the "online" people in the room "in the back". I wanted to see how their pages are done. I believe some kind of cascading style-sheets or something.
I guess my only issue is speaking in the correct terminology for the field. Hopefully this will be addressed in the New Media Projects class?