College journalists: Master new media or disappear — from USAToday.com
Last month, a college newspaper adviser from Florida, writing in the Huffington Post, took student journalists to task for failing to exploit their multimedia savvy. He’d been judging a contest and concluded that, except for some clear standouts, most of the stories on college newspaper websites looked like they were “tossed online without much thought. Or pictures, graphics, or video.”
Here, Jerod Jarvis, a senior majoring in journalism at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., challenges aspiring scribes everwhere to “be on the forefront of this revolution” and “move the industry forward.” Take it away, Jerod:
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