What is a journalist?
What is a multimedia Journalist? Is there a difference?
“Writing that reflects superficial thought and research, a popular slant, and hurried composition, conceived of as exemplifying topical newspaper or popular magazine writing as distinguished from scholarly writing” Dictionary.com
“…Multimedia journalism combines text, photographs,
audio, video and graphics in order to give an audience additional ways to
understand information…” Amy Zebra, International Symposium on online
Journalism.
In a way they are quite
similar, they both compose writing pieces that require in depth research and
thought. The occupation of a journalist has been around for hundreds of years,
when someone says what is a Journalist? I think of a 1960’s male dressed in a
dull trench coat with a notebook and a pencil balancing on the edge of his ear,
working in a busy, male orientated newspaper organisation. However when someone
says what is a Multimedia Journalist? It is difficult to fully describe an
outline of what they look like, but simple to label what they do. Obviously
they still write but not only for newspapers, but much more. For the last 10
years or so, technology has boomed! We now have smart phones, online networking
accounts, improved television channels and more than just one radio station to
connect to the whole world. These media outlets are what a multimedia
journalist uses on daily basis. Although both have the techniques of
specialised writing, I believe that the multimedia journalist has a great
advantage to express their skills and share their stories in many different
forms of media. There is no limit with multimedia journalism; I believe I
choose one of the best degrees to studying because there are so many unique
opportunities in this career.
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