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Facing the Challenges of Convergence

Media Professionals’ Concerns of Working Across Media Platforms

Edgar Huang

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA, ehuang{at}iupui.edu

Karen Davison

University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA

Stephanie Shreve

University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA

Twila Davis

University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA

Elizabeth Bettendorf

University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA

Anita Nair

University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA

This article examines some top concerns in the media industry brought up by media convergence including the need to update news staff, production quality, compensation for multi-platform productions and the legitimacy of media convergence. An online national survey was conducted both among merged and non-merged daily newspapers and commercial TV stations to find out to what extent such concerns were shared by editors/news directors and news professionals and what their answers were.

Key Words: broadcast • broadcasting • convergence • dissemination • journalism • newspaper • television • training

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 83-98 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1354856506061557
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