Newspapers, magazines, Web, photo, video, graphics, slideshow, TV, advertising, multimedia, blogs. If you thought the world of communications was limited to print, TV and Web, think again.
In an interesting series of discussion in my Online Journalism class (the class for which I created this blog about fashion at DePaul), we have pulled apart the different forms of media and what they mean to a journalism student contemplating her future career. The ultimate conclusion we have come to is this: to transition into today’s journalistic world, we better figure out how to combine two or more of those forms into one big package of talent.
Many journalists today are doing more than one thing: photographers are taking video, reporters are making feature photo albums. A few weeks ago, we had a speaker named Chris Booker come to our class. His website is linked below. Booker refers to himself as a multimedia journalist, and has created kinds of journalism totally unlike what we are used to.
Everyone has a different opinion about what journalism is becoming. Some people love the prospect of creating new projects; others value traditional print papers. What do you think?
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