Job skills for TV and online
Optimism doesn’t exactly rule in newsrooms today, but the AP’s Micah Gelman is bucking the trend. He’s recently been named executive producer for domestic video, a job that didn’t exist when he got into the business a decade ago as a local TV news producer.
Gelman believes more new jobs will be created and they’ll require new skills. But journalists will still need many of the same skills a TV producer needs now.
So what skills are those?
