The 10 key skills for the future of work

Rather than focusing on future jobs, this report (available for free download here) looks at future work skills — proficiencies and abilities required across different jobs and work settings — including WebWorkerDaily’s greatest hits like connectivity, smart machines and new media. Sense-making. The ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed Social intelligence. The ability to […]

Media and Revolutions in the Arab World

“Reporters Without Borders takes stock of censorship and infringements of the right to information during the pro-democracy uprisings that began a year ago in the Arab world. In its report “Upheaval in the Arab world: Media as key witnesses and political pawns”, Reporters Without Borders looks at the methods used by the authorities to strangle the flow […]

ABC News Plans ‘Fundamental Transformation’

[Excerpt] The transformation will have six basic components: In newsgathering, we intend to dramatically expand our use of digital journalists. In production, we will take the example set by Nightline of editorial staff who shoot and edit their own material and follow it throughout all of our programs… In structure, we will combine our weekday […]

“DOCUMENTATION OR JOURNALISM?”

[Irwin Oostindie, executive director of the W2: Community Media Arts center] said the idea is not to keep traditional media and independent media separate, as they have a lot learn from each other. “We’re interested in bringing traditional media and online media platforms together,” he said. “We feel that social media can be improved by traditional […]