A presentation given at a Mashable NextUp NYC Event during Social Media Week at 92YTribeca. Read this post on Mashable.com about the presentation: http://bit.ly/sreefuture
4. The Future Journalist is: A"Tra-digital Journalist" Term coined by Prof. SIG GISSLER, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. ... has all the skills and values of a traditional journalist, with a digital overlay. [He also talks about how journalists should convey "joyful entitlement" when reporting.]
5. The Future Journalist has: A New Media SKILLSET & A New Media MINDSET An idea from NYT's Jonathan Landman. ...you need digital skills, but you also need the ability to THINK digitally.
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19. The Future Journalist is: A Clear Personal Communicator Hi Sree, I was just wondering where the best place to send pitches for the Huffington Post is - I have sent a couple of emails to them trying to find out - but have had no luck... Thanks, Cxxxxx During the talk, I got this Twitter DM from Huffington Post's Craig Kanalley : ckanal across anyone who wants to know where to send HuffPost pitches again, send them to me! It's part of my job. :)
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22. The Future Journalist is: Permanent Learner When the plane lands in the Hudson, it's too late to figure out Twitter. When your company starts layoffs, it's too late to figure out LinkedIn. When ____ happens, it's too late to figure out _____.
23. The Future Journalist: Knows & Enjoys the Challenge "It’s the people who are entering the profession right now that are going to create the editorial models, the publishing models, the business models, that define journalism in the 21st century. And that is something that’s exciting, it’s a challenge, which, in my mind, totally outweighs the bumps in the road, the instabilities, and the lack of security that journalists face today that maybe they didn’t 20 years ago." - Joshua Michah Marshall of Talking Points Memo to Columbia J-school graduates, May 2009
24. The Future Journalist: Gets More Out of Speakers @ lavrusik / vadim@lavrusik.com blog: lavrusik.com @ sreenet / sree@sree.net Facebook: facebook.com/sreetips Social-media Skills syllabus: bit.ly/socmediaskills WEBCASTS: Basic Twitter for Journos & Advanced Twitter for Journos: bit.ly/columbiajtw2 SREE WORKSHOPS: bit.ly/workshops THIS DOC: bit.ly/futurej *** VIDEO: bit.ly/futurejvid