Journoz: Updates for Australian Journalists

Advice for aspiring journalists

How can young journalists just starting out prepare themselves? Steve Outing, senior editor at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies (www.poynter.org/) and Stop the Presses! columnist for Editor & Publisher, had some suggestions in an interview with UK's dotJournalism (www.journalism.co.uk/). Outing says: "Learn the technology. It's not necessarily about picking up specific skills ... but about understanding what's possible with the technology, and being able to work with the technologists. You are likely to be working in multiple platforms. Even if you think that you're likely to be mostly a text journalist, pick up some broadcast skills for when that's necessary to tell a story best. Learn how to take decent photographs - because even if that's not 'your job' you still may find yourself with a photo phone or digital pocket camera in hand when something important has happened and there's no staff photographer around. Learn to be versatile. Recognise that there are new jobs out there. ... Recognise that journalism is changing - away from the we-tell-you model and toward being more of a conversation between journalist and readers." The full interview is at www.journalism.co.uk/profiles/profile10.shtml Posted by belinda at June 11, 2004 09:42 AM

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