Comments on: Relearning

By: Curtis James

Curtis James — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:19:27 +0000

I think this is a great idea. We run a media enabling course http://www.audemos.co.uk/enable.php that uses clients editorial skills and our production/podcasting/web 2.0(sorry) skills. For organisations like this, it’s brilliant and gives them a better sense of ownership over the end result, much more so than if they just employed a production company to do the work.

By: Patrizia Broghammer

Patrizia Broghammer — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:37:34 +0000

“to improve journalistsâ€™ multimedia skills”
I think that is a very good idea.
You often find “multimedia skills” in people who have no content to put in multimedia and people with good content who do not know how to present it in “multimedia”.
And of course, since good brains producing good content is something much more difficult to train than “multimedia skills” they go into the right direction.
If the mountain doesn’t go anymore to Mohamed, then Mohamed has to learn how to go to the mountain…

By: Jackson K. Delton

Jackson K. Delton — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:34:12 +0000

Having grown up in the states and lived in the UK for a few years, I can definitely see a difference. I have two friends that are journalists in London and believe this also.

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:49:08 +0000

There’s a system in Malaysia — maybe it’s the same in Britiain? — whereby you are hired either as a trainee or as a full-bore journalist. The pay difference is significant, and so are the expectations. The common complaint from editors about fresh j-school grads: They want to be hired at the full-bore pay rate, but they want the training period also. This really annoys the editors there!

By: bittorrent

bittorrent — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:02:18 +0000

Ask Trinity Mirror about its wages for journalism trainees. They are on minimum wage. Many of their journalists have to take second jobs just to make ends meet.