Multimedia journalism defined

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Melissa Worden

A well-said explanation by Tom McKendrick, multimedia producer at The Age:

“[Multimedia journalism is to] take all the different aspects of traditional journalism and to merge them into a whole package … true multimedia journalism is something where you have lots of different media all converged in one place. You have video and audio and photos and text and blogs and whatever else you might have in there all in one place.

“A multimedia journalist has to have a rare balance between the technical skills — the craft skills — and the journalistic skills — or the news sense.”