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A posting for an internship at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper and its website for a multimedia intern reads a lot like the job description for a 21st century journalist.
The ad reads:
This new position is for a multidisciplined and flexible multimedia journalist who can generate and execute multimedia ideas. Ideal candidates will be able to [...]

Chris Lloyd, assistant managing editor of the Telegraph Media Group, reflects on a year of change at the newspaper.

Shot on a Nokia N95 at the Online Journalism Symposium in Austin, Texas

One of the big changes in the media has been a shift towards online video, particularly by newspapers, and this is emerging as a major battleground for audiences online.
Research by Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of City University, London, showed that editors are keen to embrace new technologies such as video and see them as [...]

For my talk on multiplatform science reporting for the Knight science journalism symposium, I prepared a cheatsheet on how to successfully produce a multimedia story.
It goes over the need for planning, collaboration, innovation and interaction, and offers some tips on the use of video and data.
Download the cheatsheet here (PDF)

Audio slideshows have become a standard feature of many news websites, largely due to Soundslides by Joe Weiss.
For the uninitiated, Soundslides is a easy-to-use tool to produce still image and audio presentations in Flash, without the need for coding skills. This is just as well, as only one of my journalism students has [...]

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 [...]

Here is the video of my keynote, Reimagining Science Journalism, at Future Directions in Science Journalism Conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in November, hosted by the UBC School of Journalism.
The keynote is in two chunks:
Part I:

Part II:

The editor of the web newsroom of The New York Times, Fiona Spruill, has been answering questions from readers all week.
As someone who manages the Times’s web newsroom, made up of the 60 producers and editors responsible for publishing NYTimes.com 24 hours a day, she has some sound advice for budding online journalists:

Our web newsroom [...]

The CBC in Canada is following in the footsteps of the BBC and moving towards bringing together television, radio and online.
Its English-language services are being formally integrated under one big boss, its current English television vice-president, Richard Stursberg.
The purpose is look at ways of having the three media arms work more closely [...]

On Friday 9 November, I had the privilege of delivering the keynote address at the opening of the Future Directions in Science Journalism conference at the University of British Columbia.
Entitled, Reimagining Science Journalism, the talk examined how the way audiences are getting news and information about science is changing, with the Internet emerging as a [...]