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Like It or Not, Journalism Is Now a Multiplex Trade

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In his essay for Nieman Journalism Lab , he argued that “one-size-fits-all” journalists trained in a wide variety of digital media skills hurt journalism more than they help it. If you’re involved in training or hiring journalists, Cohn’s article is required reading. Related posts: Selling and Journalism.

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Like It or Not, Journalism Is Now a Multiplex Trade

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In his essay for Nieman Journalism Lab , he argued that “one-size-fits-all” journalists trained in a wide variety of digital media skills hurt journalism more than they help it. If you’re involved in training or hiring journalists, Cohn’s article is required reading. Related posts: Selling and Journalism.

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The Shift to New Media Cannot Be Gradual

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More than a third of them had no company training at all in the past year, and two-thirds found what training was offered to be inadequate. If they sit back and wait to be trained, they are doomed. What training they may be given, if ever, will be limited in scope and quality. Just jump in and start training yourself.

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Should Journalists Learn to Code?

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But it’s just as clear that most of the respondents recognize their need for training, but despair of getting it. If that doesn’t happen, the only option is to write off your employer and seek training on your own. Tags: Technology Training. The first requires the employer to make digital expertise mandatory.

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Introducing the New-Media Survival Guide

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My goal in writing this e-book was to give people trained in traditional media—journalists in particular, but also people from public relations, marketing, and other areas—an easy-to-read, practical, and concise introduction to the new-media revolution. Not that impulsive? Then you might want to read more about it here.).

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Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media

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As an ASBPE-Medill survey of B2B editors showed last April, traditional publishing companies have offered little new-media training or guidance. Tags: Personal Branding Social Media Training blogging Gary Vaynerchuk new media personal branding. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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Personal vs. Corporate: Six New-Media Principles, No. 3

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To traditionally trained journalists, this may seem not simply unfamiliar, but unprofessional. In the terms of commerce, journalists are becoming brands, potentially the equal of their employer’s corporate brand. Having a personal, conversational relationship with an audience inevitably means having a distinctive voice and point of view.