Coming Out of Extinction: The Communicators of the 21st Century Gone Digital

Abstract

Trending data shows readers are consuming digital content over print media. However, not all print-based communicators and journalists are equipped with the required digital video production skills of desktop capturing, editing, and delivery of videos, photography, and digital narrative for building Web site content. To remain employable, they must accept the Digital Age and understand these new skills. They must transition and receive technology training available through community colleges, online channels and tutorials, and the emerging digitally native news nonprofits. Through the gathering, analysis, and synthesis of information from scholarly articles and colleges of the new generation of communicators and journalists, I argue that unless print-based communicators and journalists converge to the Digital Age they will become extinct relics.