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I am blogging this morning from The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., site of Teachapalooza 2012. The three-day workshop is a journalistic call-to-arms for professionals and j-profs interested in brushing up on their skills, mastering new platforms, and reenergizing their work, teaching, and curricula.
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In the opening session, Poynter gurus Al Tompkins and Vicki Krueger laid out a bevy of skills that student journalists MUST know upon graduation– beyond simply learning the latest program or what Tompkins called “the next shiny new thing.”
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The list below is a grab bag of skills– and mindsets– that Tompkins and Krueger described as essential, along with those suggested by the roughly 60 Teachapalooza attendees, those shared by j-professionals in surveys presented to us via PowerPoint, and a few left out that I feel are worthy of inclusion.
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25 Essential Skills for Today’s J-Student
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News judgment
Reporting basics
News writing
Storytelling
Critical thinking
Knowledge of world affairs & current events curiosity
Journalism ethics
Media law
Entrepreneurial journalism
Data journalism
Photojournalism & slideshows
Video
Audio
Mapping & geotagging
Real-time reporting
Documents & records utilization
Social media engagement
Blogging & web writing
Mobile & backpack journalism
Software & techie equipment
Web coding & design
SEO & audience building
Collaboration & crowdsourcing
Flexibility, learning how to learn & learning to fail
Passion for journalism
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Please let me know, politely: What skills should be added to this list??? Depending on their merits, I will add them immediately.
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Interesting list. I have been surveying how multimedia journalism is being integrated to journalism programs in U.S.; I should say at least one third of the 25 skills have not been (adequately) incorporated in the current journalism education. The survey can be found at http://www.mulinblog.com/multimedia-journalism-programs/
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Empathy is essencial slill for a journalist today. Think about engaging with the audiences and the sources or the crowdsourcing…
Good list
[...] students leave college with dozens of extremely useful and applicable skills. They include: conveying ideas in a quick and concise way, thinking critically, writing sentences [...]
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