What Does a Backpack Journalist Do?

"Super reporters" are journalists who have mastered a variety of media skills in a new situation where new media is in the ascendant and traditional and emerging media are moving towards a new alliance.

Super reporter

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"Super reporter"

These people also have various titles such as "backpack" in the United States. They have comprehensive multimedia skills and can perform reporting tasks such as text, pictures, audio, and video at the same time, providing news works for many different media. For example, in the United States Media Integration Inc., the most successful "Integration News", there is a female TV reporter named Jackie Barron who spent four weeks interviewing an important federal case in Antonio. She daily The work schedule is: write a column to the website at 6 am to introduce the case, and then go to the court to interview the latest progress of the day, and send the latest report to the TV station by phone at 10 am; from 2:30 to 3 pm Point to compile an evening TV show and pass it back to the court to interview the progress of the afternoon. The interview usually does not end until 7 pm. Finally, a press release must be written for the newspaper published the next day. Such full-skilled journalists have become very sought-after talents today. The media group's demand for integrated journalism talent has also become a driving force for the reform of journalism education.

Practice has proved that although this kind of news report relying on a single "super reporter" can be adopted across media, the problems caused by it are also very obvious. First, the deadline is sometimes not guaranteed, because a reporter must prepare different manuscripts for multiple media collections at the same time, including text, pictures, audio, and video. Even if the reporter has a very high work efficiency, it will not be possible due to the excessive workload. Complete all work before deadline. Secondly, under high-intensity work pressure, a reporter must complete the news reports provided to different types of media at the same time. Often, it is impossible to avoid duplication of content, reporting angle and form, which is not conducive to the media to provide the audience with the most appropriate service. Professor Daryl Moen of the Missouri School of Journalism believes that "I personally do not think that many people will become 'backpack reporters', but this kind of talent will be useful in some places." He said that "the place to use" mainly refers to human resources Limited local media and journalists stationed abroad and abroad. Stephen Quinn also mentioned in "Introduction to Fusion News" that a single "backpack reporter" is more suitable for reporting smaller news events or local news media in smaller markets. If it is a large media group, or Reporting large-scale and complex news events requires multi-person cross-media "super teams" to undertake the task of integrating news.