Backpack Journalism

Suekyoung Kim

After having read both articles, it seems to me that Stevens’ article is a carrot and Stone’s article is a stick to the convergence journalists. I liked both articles in a sense, Stevens’ standpoint boosted me to do what I want to do as my future career and Stone’s somewhat bitter perspective made me realize nothing is enough unless keep training ourselves. It may not be easy to get all the different jobs done perfectly by oneself, however, we as young and enthusiastic future journalists we should believe in nothing is impossible. Even though something seems impossible we should make it possible then we could finally remove the unwanted tags of ‘mediocre multitasker’ confidently.
By now, we all are undoubtedly aware of what future journalism may look like and what future journalists may face with. It’s the fact that reducing costs of producing journalism is inevitable and specializing in one thing is never enough for many people. The world becomes more sophisticated and so do people. In order to meet the demand of journalism consumers, journalists should make progress and be ready to do it all the time. As technological devices have become a part of daily life, we can only choose to get along with the current trend, never with the ancient notion that once worked out. Being a successful next runner truly depends on how well we are capable of doing so.