After reading the two extremes on views of backpack journalism I agreed with Jane's positive view the most. Martha makes a valid point that a backpack journalist will be a jack of all trades and not a master of any area of journalism. But I believe journalists not managers will make the change toward a converged news world.
We need backpack journalists to help keep giving the people what they want: not just stories but stories with multimedia. Jane also refutes Martha's arguement and believes (and even better explains) that journalists will be able to specialize in a certain area dispite being converged. She assures the reader that two different types of reporters will exist and the reader can find his/her place in it all.
All journalists need to wake up and realize that we are moving to a converged news world for better or worse and we need to prepare and train ourselves for it. I'm a magazine major but I really wanted to take a basic convergence class to be well-rounded in journalism. I think this class should be a requirement for journalism students.
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