I believe some skills and digital competencies will be useful for me throughout my academic career and future journalism career. And there are some that I think I’ll improve on throughout any courses or work opportunities due to the needs of the course or job.
The first digital competency I think I’ll need for my career was becoming familiar and comfortable with a range of digital collaboration tools. Such as file sharing, collaborative editing and annotation tools, blogs, and web conferencing. I think this skill will be really helpful for a career in journalism because I will probably be doing lots of writing and collaborating with other writers or editors to work on stories or other projects. Using these tools effectively will help me excel in my career. Web conferencing will also be very important for meeting with my coworkers or managers and discussing things relating to my job. Being in school has helped me develop this skill a little through applications like Canvas and Zoom especially. Doing discussion posts on Canvas and using apps like Word or Google Docs to work on essays and collaborate with others on them or provide annotations and edits has already helped give me a head-start on these skills.
A second digital competency I want to work on is learning how to give credit to people’s work and their original ideas by using contributions that are useful for multimedia projects. I think this will be very helpful especially for the kind of job I want which is something in journalism that uses multimedia like writing, photography, and video. Being able to appropriately give credit and use other people’s work will be very important in collaborating with other journalists or people I’m working with. Avoiding plagiarism is very important in journalism because it could distract credibility from my work or upset the original author or artist.
A digital competency that I thought might not be relevant to me or my career was learning how to use software that analyzes data like Excel, MySQL, or R Studio. I think this isn’t as relevant to a career in journalism because I don’t think it’s something I’d use very much, I think it may be more useful for a career in computer science, analytics, or statistics.
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