Then and Now

The idea of convergence journalism was ridiculous to me. Print was real and in-depth and broadcast was the surface of the story with video. How could someone merge two contradicting areas and make it look good? Also, like most of the critics of convergence journalism, I found the idea of being ok in a lot of areas compared to being amazing in one area a backward concept. You would scarifice the quality of the story and information for the look of the story.

That's what I thought back then. Now, its a different story.

After hearing all the statistics of readership and actually seeing convergence pieces, I was convinced that this was the future. The media market is looking for jounralists that can do everything. The risk of mediocre journalism is getting smaller. More and more journalists are getting trained in convergence media and convergence teams can focus teammembers in their area of expertise, thus avoiding mediocre journalism.

The critics have legitimate concerns, but as we get technological advancements and more trained professionals in the field, convergence journalism will be able to delivery news to people in ways that they will get the whole story.