The New Media
Welcome to News 2.0, with the Seattle PI leading the way:
We don't have reporters, editors or producers - everyone will do and be everything. Everyone will write, edit, take photos and shoot video, produce multimedia and curate the home page. That'll be a training challenge for everyone, but we're all up for the challenge and totally ready to pick up all these skills.
I expect that this transition will be something of a shock for some of the more pampered people in the news business :)
Comments
I predict it won't work
[ Troy Brumley] March 16, 2009 17:34:25.773
Comment by Troy Brumley
Specialization isn't perfect, but I know in our profession that good support people aren't always good head-down engineers, and vice versa. Reporting requires a different skill set than editing, etc. It could work but I'm betting the news product will suffer.