@SOE: (Audio) ‘We are wordsmiths, not video and cameramen’ Gavin O’Reilly
November 5th, 2007Posted by Oliver Luft in Online Journalism
The WAN president doesn’t seem smitten with the idea of multi-tasking journalists given this response to a question about converged journalism posed to him by Paul Horrocks, president of the SoE, during the Q&A on the opening night of the Society of Editors conference in Manchester.
“I don’t think that’s the core competency of writers… we are wordsmiths, not video and cameramen…”
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