Manic Over Multimedia
Having technical skills is a plus, but editors and recruiters say “traditional” journalists are still in demand.
By Pearl Stewart
Shannon Pittman-Price graduated from North Carolina A&T State University in May 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in print journalism. In past years, her degree may have been enough to set her on a career path in journalism.
But Pittman-Price, after completing an internship with Black College Wire, realized that journalism was headed in the direction of multimedia, and she wasn’t prepared.
So she applied to Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she was accepted into the graduate program in new media.
“I think grad school was very important to me in order to pursue my career goals,” Pittman-Price says, adding that while she “learned a lot about journalism,” at N.C. A&T, “I did not learn anything about new media.”
