The Changing Roles of the Journalist

Course Overview

Title:
The Changing Roles of the Journalist
Type:
Seminar Snapshot
Cost:
$34.95
Time Estimate:
Two hours

About Seminar Snapshots

A Seminar Snapshot captures the key learning points of a seminar presentation at The Poynter Institute or at another training event. A snapshot features edited video highlights and other materials offered during a seminar presentation.

Traditional newsroom roles -- reporter, photographer, designer -- aren't going away, but they are changing and evolving, creating the need for additional skills. Entirely new job roles are appearing in newsrooms that students need to be prepared to understand and to fill. And all journalists need to understand the wide variety of digital story forms available and be able to make choices about telling stories in multiple platforms.

This Seminar Snapshot was recorded Jan. 8, 2010, at The Poynter Institute seminar, A New Curriculum for a New Journalism.

What Will I Learn:
  • How traditional the journalism roles are evolving
  • New newsroom roles
  • How news organizations need to rethink their place in the media landscape
  • Story forms every journalist needs to understand
Who should take this course:

News organizations, journalists and educators adjusting to multimedia projects and newsrooms

Instructor: 

Regina McCombs

Regina McCombs is a faculty member of The Poynter Institute, teaching multimedia, and social and mobile journalism, and she is a contributor to the Mobile Media blog at Poynter.org.

She previously was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com and a field producer and photographer at KARE-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Winner of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, as well as an Emmy for her video work, she has spoken regularly around the country about how to find new ways to tell stories on the Web and mobile platforms.

Technical Requirements:

This course requires a Flash Player plug-in.

For the best experience, we suggest that:

  • PC users use Internet Explorer or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox
  • Mac users use Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox or Safari
  • You set your monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher
  • You use a high-speed connection

This course contains audio, so please make sure you have your speakers or headphones on.