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Mr. Gates Returns
Curation, community management and other new roles for journalists
Piet Bakker
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SEARCHIN
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Do journalists need...
technical skills (multimedia, social media, datajournalism, video, blogs)?
social skills (UGC, community management, social media)?
content skills (aggregation & curation, content-management)?
and a commercial attitude (entrepreneurship, branded journalism)?
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“What tasks, skills and qualifications are asked from new journalists?”
Method:- Villamedia vacancies- Media vacancies- Mediastages.nl
Method:- Villamedia vacancies- Media vacancies- Mediastages.nl
New jobs for new journalists
Results I - vacancies
# Technical Community Content Commercial
Broadcast 10 10 4 - 3
Magazines 6 6 3 4 3
Online 5 5 3 3 4
Business 3 3 1 2 1
Non-profit 4 4 1 2 2
Total 28 28 12 11 13
# Jobs Internships
newspaper publishers 11 2 3
magazine publishers 16 1 12
national broadcasters 19 - -
regional broadcasters 13 - 2commercial broadcasters 3 - 3
Total 62 3* 20^
Results II - media jobs
* community / crossmedia / freelance^ content, social media, blogs, crossmedia
Results III - internships
# Technical Community Content Commercial
Broadcast 37 37 12 15 3
Magazines 4 4 1 1
Online 1 1 1
Business 2 2 1 2
Total 44 44 15 15 6
Traditional•Creation•Research•Interviewing•Reporting•Writing•Critical•Independent
Traditional•Creation•Research•Interviewing•Reporting•Writing•Critical•Independent
•embrace the free speech principle•creativity is vital•writing of journalistic texts•Interviewing•researching different sources•writing texts•a feeling for language•an eye for news•storytelling•searching sources•writing skills
Technical knowledge•Programming•SEO, html, ccs•Social Media•Polls•Video, photo, maps•Data-journalism•Scraping•Visualization
Technical knowledge•Programming•SEO, html, ccs•Social Media•Polls•Video, photo, maps•Data-journalism•Scraping•Visualization
“proven track record in multi-media journalism”
“experience in video production”
“text, tables and graphs”
“SEO optimization knowledge”
Twitter, blogs, YouTube, Facebook,Vimeo, Creative Suite, Photoshop, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Flash, Office, InCopy, Woodwing, Wordpress, Typo3, CMS, HTML, CSS, SEO, Google Analytics, infographics, (interactive) animations, design, maps, tables, video-editing, screencasts, data-analysis, data-cleaning, scraping, newsletters, iPad-magazines, mobile apps.
“Asking for Superman rather than for old plain Mr. Kent”
(Alexandre Gamela)
“Asking for Superman rather than for old plain Mr. Kent”
(Alexandre Gamela)
Social tasks•Community management•Moderation•User-generated content•Discussions•Social Media
Social tasks•Community management•Moderation•User-generated content•Discussions•Social Media
“to get into conversation with our audience”
“organizing social intranet”
“engage with our community”
“editing content from partners”
“gather content”
“track, value and implement trending topics to convert them in successful stories”
Content skills•Curation•Aggregation•Social Media•Live-blogging
Content skills•Curation•Aggregation•Social Media•Live-blogging
“getting people to join our community”
“making commercial partners happy”
“brand-thinking”
Entrepreneurship•Freelance•Diversification•Innovation•Personal branding•Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship•Freelance•Diversification•Innovation•Personal branding•Business knowledge
• Journalists substituted by interns?
• Traditional skills still important
• Journalism is becoming very technical & digital.
• Social/content skills & commercial attitude expected.
• What are the consequences for journalism education?
Conclusion & discussion
twitter: @PietBakker
mail: piet.bakker@hu.nl
web: journalismlab.nl
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