Facing the Challenges of Convergence

Huang, Edgar; Davison, Karen; Shreve, Stephanie; Davis, Twila; Bettendorf, Elizabeth; Nair, Anita

doi:10.1177/1354856506061557

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“…Good writing and editing skills.'' The findings reaffirm previous studies on desired journalism skills (Adams, 2008;Huang et al, 2006b;Pierce & Miller, 2007) as well as desired skills for those specifically entering the sports journalism field (Murray, McGuire, Ketterer & Sowell, 2011).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Contrasting Desired Sports Journalism Skills in a Convergent Media Environment

Ketterer

McGuire

Murray

2013

Communication & Sport

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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.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Contrasting Desired Sports Journalism Skills in a Convergent Media Environment

Ketterer

McGuire

Murray

2013

Communication & Sport

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“…These views of convergence and cross-media work correspond to findings reported by Cottle and Ashton (1999), Singer (2004) and Huang et al (2006) in British and American newsrooms and also discussed by Deuze (2004), showing that professional subcultures are persistent over time, and across national borders.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

“…Other contributions include Marjoribanks (2003) and Grant and Wilkinson (2008). For broadcast media, however, the body of research is smaller, despite many important contributions (Dailey et al, 2005;Duhe et al, 2004;Dupagne and Garrison, 2006;Huang et al, 2006;Lawson-Borders, 2006;and others).…”

Section: Existing Researchmentioning

confidence: 95%

Cross-Media (Re)Production Cultures

Erdal

2009

Convergence

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Complex media organizations contain a number of different journalistic cultures, and the introduction of convergence and cooperation across media platforms poses a number of challenges related to this. This article looks at production cultures in an integrated news broadcasting organization. What happens when convergence strategies meet the web of inter-organizational subcultures associated with television, radio and the web? One significant development is that of new journalistic hierarchies related to increased reuse of content in news production processes. One of the main arguments for cross-media journalism from a management perspective is that spending fewer resources on republishing and updating news makes it possible to channel resources towards doing 'real journalism'. As a result, old hierarchies are supplemented by new ones. One of them is the emerging division between those reporters being given more time to research their own stories and do 'real journalism', those working mainly with updating or developing news stories that are already made, and those reproducing content for a different platform.

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“…Since then, this practice is referred to in various terminologies such as video journalists, MOJO or mobile journalists, multimedia journalists, OMBs or one-man bands, Do Platypus, SoJo or solo journalists and APJ or all platform journalists (Martyn, 2009;Tompkins, 2012;Smith, 2011). Despite being perceived as 'jack of all trades and master of none' (Huang et al 2006), backpack journalists are still often deployed to cover war and disaster zones.…”

Section: Multiskilling and Technological Convergencementioning

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Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism

Zafra

2018

PJR

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Abstract:This article offers an analysis of digital technologies' implications on disaster reporting using the perspective of a journalism-documentary practitioner. The study uses Typhoon Haiyan disaster as a case study and is based on an ethnographic analysis of the author's backpack news production in post-disaster regions in the Philippines. It supports the notion that media convergence adds valuable new elements to storytelling and presentation of news but it only refines and not replaces traditional newsgathering methodologies. Drawing on the theories of emotional discourses in disaster reporting (Pantti, Wahl-Jorgensen & Cottle, 2012), media convergence and technological determinism, this article argues that journalists practising the backpack-style are confronted with more technical issues and even higher stress-level working in disaster zones, but being solo provides more opportunities to practise humanistic storytelling. Backpack journalists immersing in disaster zones can collect more personal narratives from survivors of a disaster who feel less intimidated by their use of informal equipment.

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Facing the Challenges of Convergence

Cited by 69 publications

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Contrasting Desired Sports Journalism Skills in a Convergent Media Environment

Contrasting Desired Sports Journalism Skills in a Convergent Media Environment

Cross-Media (Re)Production Cultures

Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism

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