This Sillicon Valley Watcher came out with a list of 10 basic new media skills for journalists. He has some good points so I will share them here.

  • How to upload an image to a blog. (I know journalists that don’t know how.)
  • How to add a link to text in an online story.
  • How to take and edit a photo and resize it for a web page.
  • How to embed the code for a video in a web page and resize it.
  • How to find relevant links to a story and add them to it.
  • How to take a digital video, edit it, and publish it in several formats.
  • How to make online stories discoverable.
  • How to read HTML and be able to fix common problems.
  • How to read CSS and be able to make modifications in stylesheets.
  • How to survive in an always-on work day, and produce two or three times as much content as before.

 Do you have all these skills?