ABSTRACT
Multimedia production offers a whole series of challenges beyond those of text and print journalism. This chapter focuses on the research skills needed to work in the world of radio, TV and multimedia production. It considers how these are changing over time and what these changes might mean for new journalists hoping to build their research skills. One of the great pleasures of working in video and audio journalism is the chance to meet people face to face and give them the opportunity to speak for themselves. The oldest form of radio outside broadcast relies on traditional cabled technology. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) lines are still regularly used to transmit high quality audio material down traditional telephone lines. Video streaming from computers has been available for several years, but during 2014, two new video streaming apps, which used 4G or Wi-Fi connections, became widely available for smartphones.
