Backpack Journalism: all of the above

It's hard to see the Stevens article and the Stone article as contradictions of each other, because what they are saying is essentially the same thing at the end: news organizations need to completely restructure their newsrooms to think differently of news as a whole, and reporters across all mediums need to consider presenting their story in different mediums. Stone does not like the term "backpack journalist" because it implies a Jack-of-all-trades idea; however, even she admits that it is possible, just not something that the average person is good at. I also do not see the convergence sequence as preparing us to be that Jack-of-all-trades; but if at the very least we can think out of our first comfort zone and report stories with multimedia presentation in mind, I think we will have succeeded.