ABSTRACT
Journalists need to be multi-skilled. Cole Moreton is an excellent example of the multi-skilled journalist. When he worked for the Sunday Telegraph he pioneered new forms of multimedia storytelling. In 2014 the Financial Times commissioned Brian Viner to learn how to become a horse-racing commentator for the paper's FT Masterclasses series. Citizen journalists need twenty-first-century interviewing tools too. The National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), the body that accredits journalists' training, describes shorthand as 'a key skill for journalists', and trainees who take the National Qualification in Journalism (NQJ) are required to have 100 wpm shorthand. For long interviews, most journalists prefer to use digital recorders, although many take notes as well. As more and more online magazines and newspapers expect journalists to add multimedia content to their stories, consider taking a specialist course, especially if Journalists are a freelance journalist and want to add more strings to their bow.
