Multimedia
I never thought about having to learn how to work a photo camera or a video camera when I decided to become a journalist. I thought that writing was all I would have to learn how to do. I was so wrong. As a journalist I need to know how to take good, clear, and unique photos; and I have to know how to upload, edit, and post to the web. I also need to know how to work a video camera, hold it still, how to ask questions on camera, and how to edit clips into one cohesive unit that will engage viewers and inform them all the same.
It is exhausting just thinking about it. Journalism is no longer getting the dry facts and jotting notes down in a notebook; it is in dept interviews, and constant visual accompaniment. Today’s average person doesn’t have the attention span to read 2,500 word stories, they need pictures and video to help tell the story so that they don’t have to read so much. They are busy people on the go.
