How to be a multimedia journalist

My latest column on PBS Mediashift looks at how to teach multimedia journalism in the classroom. This means that journalists need to think on different levels as they conceive of a story and its treatment. It involves taking a multifaceted approach to a story and working out how best to tell it with the media available. The attraction for journalists is the ability to tell a story in multiple ways,

Integration the Dutch way

Another newspaper is moving towards an integrated newsroom, this time in The Netherlands. The process the de Volkskrant, one of Holland’s leading daily quality newspapers started about a year ago and in an interview with journalism.co.uk publisher Pieter Kok explains how it is going. I particularly like the way he describes the paper, turning the traditional definition on its head: “I like to think of us as an online newspaper