Entrevista com Steve Outing, senior editor at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies:
What advice would you give new web journalists?
Learn the technology. [...]
You are likely to be working in multiple platforms. Even if you think that you're likely to be mostly a text journalist, pick up some broadcast skills for when that's necessary to tell a story best. Learn how to take decent photographs - because even if that's not 'your job' you still may find yourself with a photo phone or digital pocket camera in hand when something important has happened and there's no staff photographer around. Learn to be versatile.
Recognise that there are new jobs out there. Naka Nathaniel of NYTimes.com is a great example. He's a multimedia journalist who travels the globe producing some of the great multimedia features you see on that site. With a few digital tools in his backpack, he photographs, does research and reporting, and produces while on the road. Recently, he created some great multimedia features while inside Iran, serving as Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's sidekick and producing multimedia features that supplemented Kristof's text columns.
Finally, recognise that journalism is changing - away from the we-tell-you model and toward being more of a conversation between journalist and readers. I'd urge new journalists to think more like Dan Gillmor, a newspaper columnist and blogger who says that his readers know more than he does. His journalism, while primarily him telling what he knows and has learned, is also heavily about interacting with and reacting to his readers. Read his upcoming book, 'We Media', too.
