Rosie Niven

The blog post that kicked off this series looked at how journalists and other professions have transferred their core skills to carve out completely new roles. My most recent post looked at emerging roles within media recruiters including community management and project management.

Today, I am looking at journalists who take the initiative in finding new markets by thinking a little differently. One job that comes up again and again when you look at emerging roles is that of community manager. It is something that more and more journalists are finding themselves doing and a role that requires a different skillset to what journalists have learned traditionally.

Secondly, some journalists are finding that there is a demand for their skills outside journalism including small businesses and charities. I spoke to three journalists who are already using their skills to serve these markets and have uploaded clips from the interviews to Audioboo. Continue reading →

What the hell is a director of distributed journalism? Is a curator a boffin who decides what to put in a museum? Does a data miner need a lamp and helmet?

You’d be forgiven for being totally flummoxed when coming across some of the titles that journalists are given these days. Some of the ones listed above typify the emerging roles in the media professions. And the emergence of these roles are challenging journalists’ traditional skillset like never before.

Just before Christmas, an article that I wrote for the NUJ’s Journalist magazine on this very subject was published. It is a very big area and I a lot of the information that I got didn’t make the final feature.

Some of the unused information is likely to be helpful to new starters and mid-career journalists so over the 12 days of Christmas I am going to publish these outakes online in the form of blogs and podcasts.

The series will continue tomorrow with a post on professional transfer, which has created many new disciplines over the years. My post will focus on the disciplines of social reporter, service designer and corporate anthropologist.

In the meantime, enjoy the article on page 14 / 15 of the Journalist.

Interesting initiative from the team behind Guardian Local to promote engagement between journalists, bloggers, readers and the community.

“Collaborative journalism is a mode of journalism where multiple reporters or news organizations, without affiliation to a common parent organization, report on and contribute news items to a news story together. It is practiced by both professional and amateur reporters. Well that’s how wikipedia describes it and it was this definition I mentioned yesterday at the launch of the Leeds Community News Hub. The event at Leeds Trinity University Coll … Read More

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