Skills, man

            The most important aspect to being a journalist—being a bringer of information—is being able to do more than one thing. It isn’t enough, now, to just know how to write.

            There is writing and editing, taking pictures and taking video, formatting for the web and adding links, blogging and tweeting with hashtags and Instagrams. And journalists do it all.

            I started the mass communications program at Winthrop just before they changed it so that majors get to experience more than just their concentration. I took classes in writing and reporting and designing for print.

            Therefore, I am completely inexperienced in putting together video packages or sound bites or podcasts or any of that sort of thing.

            I want this class to help me be a more well rounded reporter.