Multimedia and online journalism seminar

I spotted this a while ago, when Jeff Jarvis tweeted about it.

I thought it was interesting in light of what Denis wrote about MoJos, or mobile journalist, and how dependent on expensive equipment they were.

It also ties in to what I said during the presentation, about how journalists are expected to do more work for the same amount of money (or less, in some cases) as they were paid before multimedia became hugely important.

I seriously doubt Geoff Patton is being paid more money for producing video and photographs, although he is doing a second person's job. He may have it handy thanks to the "perp cam" but he also has to edit twice as much, and possibly upload it all to the web as well, and we must remember that there are many journalists who cannot afford equipment like the perp cam.