Technical skills needed in journalism jobs

January 22, 2008 · Filed Under Future of Media 

What technical skills are media companies looking for in journalists? Eric Ulken, a producer at The Los Angeles Times and instructor at USC, took all the online job descriptions on JournalismJobs.com from this year, omitted the non-technical words (like “editor”, “seeks” and “self-starter”) and built a tagcloud out of the rest. Here’s what it looks like.

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