What is it about?

The paper aims at understanding the intersections between technology and the professional practices in some of the new trends in journalism that are using the new tools: multimedia journalism, immersive journalism and data journalism.

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Why is it important?

We have selected three cases of study. They allowed us to conclude that the technology matrix is going to remain and that change and digital process is not turning back and demands to evolve and adapt to new dynamics of work in multidisciplinary teams where the debate between journalists and technologists must be ongoing. Different approaches nourish the double way of skills and competences in the profiles of the current technological journalist, which professionals perceive as a demand in the present ecosystem.

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There is a twofold objective: answering questions about which tools are being used to produce pieces of news, and which kind of knowledge is needed in the present century. The result: very satisfactory for the authors

Xosé López-García
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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This page is a summary of: Technological Skills and New Professional Profiles: Present Challenges for Journalism, Comunicar, October 2017, Grupo Comunicar,
DOI: 10.3916/c53-2017-08.
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