Tagged: Journalism Stereotypes

Stereotypes: Yes, There’s a ‘Digital’ in ‘Print and Digital News’

(Editor’s Note: this is part of a series of blog posts about the stereotypes some people have about other sequences. Watch our video for more information about this series)

The sequence at the University of Missouri School of Journalism is called “Print and Digital News,” not “Newspaper.”

Card-carrying members of the Print and Digital News sequence want to work in print (newspapers and magazines) and/or digital (websites, mostly) news.

But when people talk about us, all anybody thinks of is reporters who value their byline on an ink-filled page. The rest of the students are forgotten, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a unique scenario, but let’s pick on reporters first.

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Stereotypes: Convergers Are Jack of All Trades, Master of SOME

(Editor’s Note: this is part of a series of blog posts about the stereotypes some people have about other sequences. Watch our video for more information about this series)

This is what I always hear about convergence journalists: “the lost, the confused, the tech nerds, the jack of all trades yet masters of none.”

If I had a dollar for every time I had to explain what the convergence journalism sequence actually is and truly consists of, I would have no need to even be at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Convergence really means multimedia, as we “convergers” tell a story through multiple platforms, including text, audio, video, photos, graphics and social media. Hence we are considered jacks of all trades, masters of none.

Is this true? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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