‘‘New Media’’ Skills Competency Expected of TV Reporters and Producers: A Survey

Electronic News

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-59

  Cremedas, Michael ^a   Lysak, Suzanne ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

convergence; multi media; new media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85157849985     PISSN: 19312431     EISSN: 1931244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1931243111400391     Document Type: Article

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