Traditional journalism skills key online

The most important skills in online news jobs are traditional journalism skills such as news judgement, according to a new study by a Medill Schol of Journalism student, produced in cooperation with the Online News Association. Master’s student C. Max Magee surveyed than 400 online journalists for the study.

You can view the full study here.

November 5, 2006 by
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  • Jeff Crigler

    It might be interesting to take this question up again — not least because Magee collected his data in 2005, and last week at Davos, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg was still talking about “the sometimes embarrassing attempts of MSM to join the action on the Web.”

    So we’ve put together a poll — a short one, but it’s based on some of what Magee asked in his.  It’s over here at News2020Project.com.