Elise Crawley
Backpack journalism is in itself a difficult question. There are certainly many advantages to it, including being able to cover more news more in-depth and more quickly. Still, there are many drawbacks, like a sacrifice of quality and possibly journalist’s jobs. In a multimedia age where most young people are consuming news online, backpack journalists are certainly going to be invaluable for their skills. Especially because professional journalists have to compete with citizen-journalists. However, every journalist is not likely to become a backpack journalist. There is always going to be a need for people who are highly specialized. Still, journalists will have to retain a multimedia background while being highly specialized because the nature of news is going to be such that every journalist is going to have to discern which media will be the best to craft a story.
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