Week One

I read the article "The Backpack Journalist is a 'Mush of Mediocracy'" with more than a grain of salt. It sounded to me like the author was more concerned with the number of journalism jobs avaliable than with the quality of journalism being produced. I would argue that most of the current backpack journalists lack formal training in the field of convergence or multi-platform as a speciality, and what training we are now recieving will better prepare us to relay information in this manner.

I guess I didn't really imagine using all the different media types to tell every single story. I see myself coming out of this sequence with the ability to use all sorts of different things, but also posessing the discretion to choose one or two that are best suited to the story. Or working with specialists in each media to put together a multi-platform story. I suppose that because convergence journalism is still rather new, we'll get a bit of say in what it will be or look like in the future.