I saw an article on poynter.org today that was talking about how journalists need to be taught a lot differently than they used to. It's not just about a notebook and a pen anymore, it's about all of the software programs that keep coming out. Journalists need to be taught about Blogger, Dreamweaver, and Flash. Blogger (what I'm obviously doing now) lets journalists use the website to type down their thoughts, stories, etc. Dreamweaver is a program that helps design websites, and Flash is the program that a lot of people use to create animation and interactive stuff on websites.

This makes me think about the journalists that have been around forever. They are kind of being pushed under the covers with all of the young, educated, Internet-savy journalists today. But, I also believe that not every student just out of college has as much experience with these programs as employers would like. For an example, I'm a junior and I've never used Dreamweaver, or Flash. I'm efficient with anything associated with Microsoft Office, and ok with Photoshop, but there are so many programs that I've never heard of, let alone be efficient in all of them. This might also prove my point in why I don't want to be a journalist, but it's almost impossible to learn all of these programs.

Journalism programs today need to try to make an emphasis on all of these new programs coming out, and keep up to date. If a journalist wants to be educated in the field, they are going to have to go above and beyond the pen and paper.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=138410