In the digital reign, both bogs (web logs) and moblogs (mobile web logs) are spreading around the globe and they really change the work of reporters. While people can view news text, photos, video pictures, MP3, downloading webpages, and checking emails on 3G cellular telephone screen and other mobile devices, news makers in the new age need to learn how to use and post text, image, video, and sound through the electronic materials. Deadline’s very important for journalists. With cellphones, they are now unnecessary to go to their offices to file stories and post pictures like the old-media style but they can do from the field where they work. They seem to bring their newsrooms with them to everywhere. Through her/his blogs and mobogs, a reporter can do multi-functions. S/he can write and edit news stories, take photos and video footages, and post them on her/his own blog and moblog.
From day to day, technology is updated too fast. From traditional print media, the world jump up to radio, TV, and then internet with non-stopped developed digital items. Reporters, therefore, must develop and improve their multi-skills – a combination of text, image, sound, and interactivity -- so that they are able to catch up the digital style and its players. I really agree with what the authors said in Convergent Journalism, P. 75 that “The world of convergence is a world of creative opportunities. Those opportunities are most open to people who have more than one skills and work across styles. Journalists who are not afraid to break the mold on style, while adhering to the rules on substance and ethics, will then be the ones who will create a new form of storytelling”.
However, what reporters need to do is to earn their blogs and moblogs viewers’ trust. END
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