8. Education, Training and Management of Journalists
Themes
Just what is the future for the print media, based on the sort of journalist now coming into newsrooms? How will the attitudes and behaviours of younger journalists impact on their established colleagues? Are these reporters in a better position to help newspapers manage the technological and other changes? The papers in this section address these questions and provide food for thought. Like some papers in other sections they perhaps raise more questions than they answer, but they certainly indicate important areas for further fruitful research.
Bruce Morgan looks at how the employment of younger journalists has led to the need for a change of management practices, particularly in regional newspapers. City newsrooms are not the only place where changes are occurring and country newspapers can drive change as well. This is also shown in the paper by Jacqui Ewart and Brian L Massey, which looks at an innovative strategy adopted by APN, the largest publisher of regional and country newspapers in Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Fiona Martin's paper refers back to her other paper in the report, in the Convergence chapter. In this paper she looks at how education and training for journalists need to be changed to take into account the convergent newsroom. She looks not just at what the universities are doing, but the particular training being done by the larger newspaper companies, and by AAP.