Education of the nation

Posted by Christine in Blog: words and web on 04 20th, 2009 | no comments

What skills do graduates going into online journalism need these days? I’ve been asking around and I’d like you to join in the debate: email me or post a comment with your answers on the following:

  1. What skills are essential for up-and-coming online journalists/web writers? E.g. writing, image manipulation
  2. What should they be able to do by the time they come for an interview? E.g. re-write a press release, upload into a CMS
  3. Do they need HTML? Dreamweaver?
  4. Is metadata and tagging still important?
  5. How much awareness do they need about the web? E.g. content syndication, SEO, accessibility, usability, technical/how websites work
  6. Where is online journalism going in the next few years? E.g. the role of online in terms of the decline of newspapers, innovation and who is driving it (developers, journalists, users), citizen journalists

I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

This post was originally published by Christine on Mon, 04/20/2009

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