Video Assignment #1

I was recently describing the divisions that the journalism school creates in curriculum and realized that online journalism is increasingly becoming less of a separate discipline. It's unrealistic to go into journalism and think that you're only going to communicate through one medium. The whole point of journalism is to communicate with people, and to spread information. You can't do that by just putting it in the paper anymore, because that's not how people get their information.

Obviously, this will be a challenge. Journalists need to provide information in any way that people get it. The number of ways that people get their information is constantly increasing, so as journalists master the ins, outs, benefits, and disadvantages of each medium, another medium is likely arising.

Another problem is that many new journalists, at least in my experience, are in the field because they like to write, and they like to communicate, not because they're stellar with technology. This may be changing as technology becomes increasingly important to journalists. But towards the beginning of this shift, print journalists struggle with becoming adept at technological things- knowing how to properly record video and audio, and add it to the web, and then how to draw attention to *your* website over someone else's.

The main challenge here is flowing with change. But that's part of what makes journalism so interesting- nothing ever just stays the same. You're at the forefront of the change itself, analyzing and understanding it as you live it.