You use the core skills to dig out a story and you use your new media skills to communicate it with your readers. They are non-competing. This is where I think much of the debate is wrong. It’s not a case of one or the other, they are mutually beneficial.

One set is for sourcing news, the other is for communicating it.

From a post I wrote for journalism.co.uk’s TNTJ blog. The debate topic for August is “What skills do new journalists need?”. Read on…