Matthew Healey photo
courtesy of Christine Hochkeppel
Christine
Hochkeppel taking photos of a volcano in Costa Rica while on vacation
earlier this year.
Web’s
demands set stage
for journalism juggling acts
By Laura
Moran and Bret Silverberg
Bulletin Staff
The image of the desk-bound
scribe, head buried in a typewriter, is a faded memory. The days of
the hard-and-fast print deadline have melded with the age of deadline
ambiguity, as news managers are being forced to do more with less in
print and yet do much more on the Internet.
The journalists of 2009 are
being asked to perform a multitude of tasks for the publications that
issue their paychecks.
Supervising editors
are asking members of their staffs not only to dig up and report stories,
but to take photographs and shoot video. While the title under their
bylines typically says staff writer, most newsroom employees have become
far more than that.
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