Reportr.net » Alan Murray http://www.reportr.net 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 21:48:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The skills that online journalists need to succeed http://www.reportr.net/2009/04/14/the-skills-that-online-journalists-need-to-succeed/ http://www.reportr.net/2009/04/14/the-skills-that-online-journalists-need-to-succeed/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:48:35 +0000 Alfred Hermida http://reportr.net/?p=1478 This video interview with Alan Murray, executive editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, is timely for the j-schoolers graduating in a few week’s time and for the new crop of students getting ready to come to journalism school.

In the interview by Nieman Journalism Lab, Murray talks about what he looks for when in online reporters:

In the digital area, you do want people who can be very fast and are willing to, you know, post multiple times a day and to multitask.

An additional skill is know how to market your work, balancing “maximum search engine hits” and producing something that  “that’s uniquely valuable”.

Essentially Murray is talking about journalism plus.

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