Comments on: News convergence isn't easy for student journalists, either

By: J Maguire

J Maguire — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:13:01 +0000

This is really great! Getting students to cross curriculum and think from various sides of the field is necessary for today’s media industry.
The past five years, perhaps more, but particularly since the dawn of the web 2.0 era has brought about some serious changes to many fields and journalism happens to be one that seems to be most affected. News can now be “broadcast” almost instantly, so the demands of the job and the traditional hierarchy of journalism have changed.

I would like to recommend an interview series of professional journalists discussing their views on the effects and changes to the future of journalism.
http://www.ourblook.com/topic/future_of_journalism.html

By: Aaron Chimbel

Aaron Chimbel — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:56:14 +0000

That’s an interesting point. I don’t think convergence is meant to increase voices. It’s really focused on utilizing resources more efficiently to be able to do more stories rather than fewer stories by multiple people. So, instead of having two reporters do two stories on the same topic, you have two different stories. However, those could be side-bars and accompanying stories to provide more context, perspectives or depth to an overall story or package/presentnation.

By: 207.179.242.91

207.179.242.91 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:45:20 +0000

This center sounds awesome, as does the reshuffling of the curriculum and assignments.

But what happens to the diversity in news? If these students are all in the same location, won’t they essentially be doing the same stories on a different platform?

I’m a student myself and we’ve been told about hearing different voices. I think that the stories on each platform might be too similar.