Comments on: Skills for the journalists of tomorrow http://www.reportr.net/2007/02/07/skills-for-the-journalists-of-tomorrow/ This blog on media, society and technology is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: feartheseeds http://www.reportr.net/2007/02/07/skills-for-the-journalists-of-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-20 feartheseeds Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:34:39 +0000 http://reportr.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/skills-for-the-journalists-of-tomorrow/#comment-20 ...I think he's looking for your basic College graduate. My journalism course, way back in 1994, offered exactly those items (substitute the Digital Camera with an SLR and a b/w darkroom course). My first reporting job out of college required me to FTP stuff so the ME could edit and send it along to the Layout guy without leaving his fortress of a cubicle. I also had to update the website daily... so roughly 90 minutes of my day was dealing with HTML. If I remember correctly our J-course HTML component was an hour or two a week (our J-course also had a series of courses on television and radio broadcasting... ) I think I'm agreeing with you, tech-training in a J-School shouldn't be something which is producing 'coders', it should be something that is taught so kids aren't afraid of the technology when they graduate, because if I'm looking to hire a recent J-graduate I'm looking at number four on the above list as the number one on mine. But in terms of using the Internet to augment sources, to find new sources, to find background and to find secondary and contrary sources, this shouldn't be new. As it was, as it is, as it shall always be, the trick is still in knowing which sites are relevent and which parts of sites you'll find the information on... although creative search engine terminology usage alone should probably be a full time, stand alone, course. …I think he’s looking for your basic College graduate. My journalism course, way back in 1994, offered exactly those items (substitute the Digital Camera with an SLR and a b/w darkroom course). My first reporting job out of college required me to FTP stuff so the ME could edit and send it along to the Layout guy without leaving his fortress of a cubicle. I also had to update the website daily… so roughly 90 minutes of my day was dealing with HTML. If I remember correctly our J-course HTML component was an hour or two a week (our J-course also had a series of courses on television and radio broadcasting… )

I think I’m agreeing with you, tech-training in a J-School shouldn’t be something which is producing ‘coders’, it should be something that is taught so kids aren’t afraid of the technology when they graduate, because if I’m looking to hire a recent J-graduate I’m looking at number four on the above list as the number one on mine.

But in terms of using the Internet to augment sources, to find new sources, to find background and to find secondary and contrary sources, this shouldn’t be new. As it was, as it is, as it shall always be, the trick is still in knowing which sites are relevent and which parts of sites you’ll find the information on… although creative search engine terminology usage alone should probably be a full time, stand alone, course.

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