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‘Convergence’ is uniting more than the mediums used by reporters. Convergence is also uniting reporters. Behind the scenes, reporters are coming together to tell their personal stories and share their skills.
Digital recordings and the World Wide Web have allowed reporters to move their information more and more fluidly, more efficiently, and streamlining video, audio, and copy on one front. This is requiring once isolated reporters to come together in a spirit of education.
The Dallas Morning News videographer and editor Jake Batsell attends classes at UNT to tell his convergence testimony, and Lisa Parisot is teaching print journalism students her skills from a long career as a television news photographer. Skills once belonging to multiple individuals – a writer, a videographer and a photographer – are being required from the same individual in today’s journalism world. Therefore, the sense of community is building as each skill set is shared through oral communication – lectures.
Lisa Parisot has employed multimedia techniques as she educates. Her blog and Mac Web site mix photos and text. Slideshows of her cameras offer a reference resource to students. Through teaching classes, she brings journalists together in a field where independence is valued and necessary to report aggressively.
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