Chapter 13 Week 13

1. One of the main problems with cnovergence in relation to journalism is that most journalists are not trained in all the fields that are required for a converged news room.

Media companies need to make sure journalists are properly trained in all areas of mixed media before convergence is a success.

2. An issue with convergence is that some people don't feel comfortable working with certain medium. For example, if a print journalist was told they had to go and report on TV and they were not comfortable with the idea of being on national television, the company may even lose their journalist.

I believe the media would lose alot of journalists and potential journalists to this situation because if the felt really uncomfortable they may not want to continue being journalists, or prevent the potential journalists from actually becoming one.

3. As it says on p313 in the text book, the success of convergence will ultimately depend on journalilsts and news consumers.

So with the seemingly negative atitude of journalists towards convergence, I think the concept will fade away leaving print journalists on paper and TV journalists on screen.

4. If cross-media ownership laws become less strict then media companies will eventually go broke, especially newspapers (p303). If newpapers publish exactly what is in their papers on their websites, they won't be making any profit to support themselves because the public will begin to read their news on the Internet... for free... thus in the long term, sending the paper broke.

5. Despite the invention of the TV, people still use the radio, and despite the invention of the web, people still use TV (p301). So I think that in the future radio and TV will still be used and web will probably be upstaged by a new form of communication technology.

6. I belive it is important to be able to do a few different things in relation to journalism such as being able to write, take photos, operate a video camera, etc because sometimes you may need to use other resources to make a better story.

I think it is a very good idea to have options at uni that allow potential journalists to be multi-skilled.

7. People are definatley becoming increasingly dependent on the Internet, however I doubt the human race would die out of the Internet were to disappear one day.


Points of Interest:

- When writing for the Internet writers must realise that many of the site's readers do not speak english as their first language so it is important to use simple language, without much use of jargon, cliches, Australianisms etc.

- With convergence, journalists will need to know about the Internet and the things that come with it such as website production and the jargon used in the web world.