Changing reporters’ roles

This is from the U.K., but illustrates a point I made in my presentation yesterday: the role of the reporter is changing partly because of technology. Newspaper group to train its 1,500 journalists in online skills:

Every journalist working on a Northcliffe newspaper is to be trained to update its accompanying website, putting stories online themselves and learning how to “add value” to articles.

The group says fully integrated multi-media newsrooms will soon be in operation across its titles, with all of its 1,500 journalists writing for both print and online. …

Reporters are now being shown how to add links from their online stories, and photographers are being trained to upload photo galleries so that visitors to the website can see the pictures that there wasn’t space to print.

via online journalism.

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