This research study considered the desired job skills for future newspaper sports reporters and television sports reporters in the convergence journalism era. A national survey of newspaper sports editors and TV sports directors ranked their five most important skills using open-ended responses. Although the skills were not correlated at each level of importance, a significant and strong correlation was found in overall rankings. Both groups stressed fundamental skills such as writing, but specialization was also important, especially production skills for TV sports journalists. Also, participants wanted applicants with a wider variety of skills to meet the demands of a converged media environment and a shrinking workforce.
In this research, interviews were conducted with 10 US newspaper sport journalists to gauge their experiences and attitudes toward issues and coverage of open and closeted gay men in sport, sport media, and within society. Concerning closeted athletes, most of these journalists are reluctant to report on athletes' non-normative sexual orientation, even if that means a competitor could scoop them on a story about a major athlete being gay. Most of these reporters believe that US sport fans are ready for openly gay athletes in professional men's team sports, but that locker rooms might be slower to adapt. Despite these progressive attitudes and more than 220 years of collective professional media experience, none of these journalists ever worked with a sports reporter who was openly gay to all of their colleagues. Therefore, it was not surprising that most believed sport journalism would be a challenging career for openly gay men, particularly if those individuals also did not conform to gender-normative notions of masculinity.
This top-down approach focuses on how catalogers, other cultural heritage information workers, web/ Semantic Web technologists, and the general public have understood, explained, and managed their resource description tasks by creating, counting, measuring, classifying, and otherwise arranging descriptions of cultural heritage resources within and beyond the bibliographic universe. We go on to prescribe what enlargements of cataloging theory and practice are required such that catalogers and other interested parties can describe pages from unique, ancient codices as readily as they might describe information elements and patterns on the web.We will be enhancing cataloging theory with concepts from communications theory, history of science, graph theory, computer science, and from the hybrid field of anthropology and mathematics called ethnomathematics. Employing this strategy benefits two groups:■ ■ Workers in the cultural heritage realm, who will acquire a broadened perspective on their resource description activities, who will be better prepared to handle new forms of creative expressions as they appear, and who will be able to shape the development of information systems that support more sophisticated types of resource descriptions and ways of exploring those descriptions. To build a better library system (perhaps an n-dimensional, n-connected system?), one needs better theories about the library collections and the people or groups who manage and use them.■ ■ The full spectrum of people who draw on cultural heritage resources: scholars, creatives (novelists, poets, visual artists, musicians, and so on), professional and technical workers, students, and other people or groups pursuing specific or general, longor short-term interests, entertainment, etc.To apply a multidisciplinary perspective to the processes by which resource description data (linked or otherwise) are created and used is not an ivory tower exercise. Our approach draws lessons from the debates on why, what, and how to describe physical phenomena that were conducted by physicists, engineers, software developers (and their historian and philosopher of science observers) during the evolution of high-energy physics. During that time, intensive debates raged over theory and observational/experimental data, the roles of theorists, experimenters, and instrument builders, instrumentation, and hardware/software system design.2 Accommodating the resulting scientific approaches to description, collaboration, and publishing has required the creation of information technologies that have had and continue to have world-shaking effects.
Newspaper sports journalists training to enter the field will be asked to know different skills from their predecessors. Also, newspaper editors are concerned about the journalistic skills of their future employees. This research investigated job skills desired of the next generation of sports journalists within newspaper organizations. Through a factor analysis, four underlying dimensions were found: broadcasting skills, editing skills, reporting skills and sports knowledge. Mean scores showed reporting skills having the most importance.
Advances in personal computer technology have made powerful methods for the collection and analysis of patient information available to clinical users. This report details the development of a multi-user database distributed across a network of personal computers that facilitates operative scheduling, and collection and analysis of operative data. Clinicians from each surgical service in our medical center developed customized data entry programs that contribute information centrally through a telephone-line network to prepare the daily operative schedule. Subsequently, information from the operating rooms is added to the preoperative database to form an operative log, which is distributed to client services for further analysis and modification. This system has improved the efficiency and accuracy of operative scheduling and information management and shifted the burden of data collection away from the physician. Widespread availability of these data has contributed to the development of an effective quality improvement program and facilitated effective management of personnel and resources.
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