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Kathy Keith wrote:
> 

> I believe more newspaper companies will realize they are information
> companies. The organization of information companies will necessarily
> include more programmers and systems folk and let the journalists be
> journalists. I think it's important for journalists to understand the
> value of telling their stories through various media and how those
> media will work together online, but I don't think the journalist
> needs to know how to make those things work together (i.e. produce the
> product). The journalist might have to learn how to shoot video, which
> appears to be a no-brainer for those of us with video cameras. The
> journalist also might have to learn how to use a digital camera which
> is really no different than using a regular camera. And audio is
> captured with a tape recorder. I don't think the fundamental skills of
> a journalist (a story-teller) will change.
> 

What if the story is to be told in a non-linear, non-narrative fashion?
There are plenty of "Rashomon"-type stories out there that can be told
more effectively in the interactive, nonlinear medium of the web. 

For an online journalist to take advantage of his/her medium, he/she
needs to have at least a basic understanding of the "nuts and bolts" of
interactive production in order to collect and organize the necessary
information for the story. 

Online, programming can become as much an act of "storytelling" as
putting nouns and verbs together is in print. Perhaps that is why the
first online news producers included so many computer-assisted reporting
specialists. CAR journalists not only had a better understanding of
computers and networking technology than most traditional reporters, but
they also had a better understanding of data and how it could be worked
to create new information. Both those skills, in addition to traditional
reporting and editing skills, are essential (IMHO) to do top quality
work online.

-- 
Robert Niles
Executive Producer, InsideDenver.com
 Rocky Mountain News
 ph. 303-892-2570
 http://InsideDenver.com

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