1. CONVERGENT JOURNALISM By Dianne Smith, MJE

2. WHAT is convergent journalism?

3. Traditional School Media To answer that question, let’s first look at

5. Each publication existed on its own with a separate staff and separate times during the day.

6. Newspaper staffers researched, interviewed people, wrote stories and designed the newspaper.

7. Yearbook staffers researched, interviewed people, wrote stories and designed the yearbook.

8. Broadcast staffers researched, interviewed people, produced stories and aired them.

9. Photographers took pictures, filed them, prepared them for publication and wrote captions for the publications staffs.

12. TECHNOLOGY CHANGES EVERYTHING!

13. The use of technology—faster and more capable computers, digital camcorders and SLR cameras, iPods, cell phones, CDs and DVDs, web sites—have all become part of the information process. News travels faster than ever before and is received not only on television and radio and in newspapers, but through web sites, cell phones and even iPods.

14. MySpace and Facebook and other social networking sites online have become extremely popular among all age groups. Members access their own and friends pages to find out all kinds of information including news, listen to music, watch videos and much more.

15. Edublog.org Online journaling, or blogging (short for web logging) has experienced a veritable explosion in popularity. Personal blogs, educational blogs, business blogs, political blogs, news blogs, opinion blogs have come together to form what is called the Blogosphere. And this blogosphere has changed the face of the media forever. Blogs can be accessed by computer, cell phone, iPods and it won’t be long before the technology will be there to access them through television and other media.

16. With social networking sites, blogging sites, shopping sites (Amazon.com, Overstock.com, eBay.com, along with brick and mortar stores which have set up online shopping), message boards, music sites, video sites, ability to watch missed episodes of favorite television shows, online gaming, online banking, online stock trading, online dating, etc., is it any wonder that people are spending more time than ever before online?

17. SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE NEWS MEDIA?

18. THEY'VE GOT THE URGE TO CONVERGE!

19. LOOK AT WHAT HAS HAPPENED!

20. THE PROFESSIONAL MEDIA DID IT... COLLEGE MEDIA ARE DOING IT... THE TIME HAS COME FOR US

23. Readers became a part of the process as well. Not only can their thoughts and opinions be submitted through online forums and blogs, and traditional letters to the editor, but today’s fairly inexpensive digital cameras, camcorders and cell phones allow ordinary citizens to submit video and pictures of news events as they happen. “ Citizen journalism”, while controversial, allows more interaction and supplies publications with access to content they would not otherwise have.

26. CONVERGENCE HAPPENED!

27. Convergence is the merging of print media, photojournalism, podcasting, video/broadcast, the Internet and other media such as DVDs into a dynamic media entity where all team members understand and participate in the entire process, from beginning to end, to prepare information for dissemination to readers, viewers, and listeners. While some team members will eventually specialize, all are trained in the entire process.

28. What does it mean FOR US?

29. BIG CHANGES BETTER! FOR THE

32. What does it mean FOR YOU?

36. GET THE URGE TO CONVERGE!