As a student at the J-School, I feel there is a slight prejudice against convergence students. It’s nothing organized or overt, but I feel many students working toward specializing in newspaper, photojournalism, magazine, broadcast and strategic communication don’t recognize convergence as a career path legitimately integral to journalism.
Reading the article “Backpack Journalism is a Mush of Mediocrity” affirmed why many professionals in the industry hesitate to laud convergence and multimedia journalism as the hallmarks of the digital journalism era. While I agree that simply resorting to complicated technologies cannot mask poor journalistic work, I feel that there is a seismic shift happening in newsrooms across the nation and throughout the world. The changes in how people want the news are directly correlated to the rise of the backpack journalist.
Convergence and multimedia journalism are intended to cater to a new audience that wants a dialogue with journalism, not a monologue.
-Abbie Schmid
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