Thursday, January 24, 2008

Technical skills needed in journalism jobs

This is very interesting; an American perspective but certainly relevant here also.

"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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via CyberJournalist.net

2 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Proof in the pudding that we need this course! The layout of her tagline map reminded me of this great website called newsmap:

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm