In a short video clip in Innovations in College Media, Dwayne Yancey, Assistant ME Roanoke Times, talking about new hires, tells Bryan Murley:
The big change for us has been over the past year, because now we are specifically looking for some sort of online, multimedia experience or at least exposure. Still looking for the same things we were before: strong clips, good work ethic. None of that has changed or diminished but now we are specifically looking for some sort of experience with online or multimedia.
(In the rest of the clip, Yancey details some of the possible skills that will get journalists hired.)
Not all newspapers are as advanced or as adventurous with their multimedia as the Times is, but I suspect what I’m hearing in this clip is the near-future new reality for journalists and for those of us teaching them.
TAGS: JOURNALISM, SKILLS, JOBS
