Ah yes, the SPJ convention of 1983 in our nation's capital. Sam Donaldson was the brash enemy of the Republican White House, and ABCNEWS had launched its new brand -- World News Tonight -- a little earlier. (Um, I'm the one WITH hair in college, thank you)
My classmates arrived in DC as specialists -- print, radio-TV or advertising. Today's news from ABC is quite different -- the entire news division offered buyouts. Terms tossed around in the story like "digital journalists."
Preditors. Multi-taskers. Multi-medias. Convergence. Pick your term, but what appears a reality today for traditional legacy news is tomorrow's fate for SIDs.
Ask yourself -- can you rough cut video? Script out a podcast or sound bite? Keep pace to write a real-time blog? Someday, excellence in individual tasks may return, but for the short term future, the mechanic will reign, the general practitioner, the renaissance SID: good all, great at none.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Remembering Salad Days
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