The NUJ has published its report on multimedia working in the UK, looking at impact of new technologies on journalists. Among its key conclusions is that: The quality of journalism is being threatened in the multimedia age because of the increasing demands placed on reporters, who are working longer hours and taking on more responsibility for no extra pay This is not news to anyone working in multimedia newsroom, where
Extracts from a report by the UK’s National Union of Journalists’ Commission on Multi-media Working have provoked a storm of commentary online. The details are in the current issue of the NUJ magazine, The Journalist. But you can get an idea of what it says from this posting on the UK Press Gazette. Shane Richmond at The Telegraph calls it a “blinkered approach to online“. Roy Greenslade of The Guardian