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In today’s journalism world you need
• to be able to create and produce storytelling in whatever format is most appropriate.
• to master technical skills as well as journalism skills
• to understand what the technology can do
• to be as comfortable writing a text story as with recording audio to accompany a web presentation.

Learn the technology. It’s helpful to pick up specific skills, but most important is understanding what the technology can do and being able to work with different technologies.

Learn to be versatile. More than likely, you’ll end up working in multiple platforms. Even if you think you’ll be mostly a text journalist, pick up some broadcast skills for when that’s the best way to tell a story. Learn how to take decent photos. Even if photography isn’t your job, you may find yourself with a photo phone or digital pocket camera when something important happens and there’s no staff photographer around.

Jobs as multimedia journalists
Naka Nathaniel of NYTimes.com is an example of a multimedia journalist who travels the world producing some of the great multimedia features on the New York Times website. With a few digital tools in his backpack, he photographs, does research and reporting, and produces while on the road. 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.

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