bORN tO bE wIRED: Skills of the Online Journalist

If you're a reporter, editor, feature writer or just about any kind of journalist, the Internet can help you do your job faster and better. (And the way job requirements are changing these days, Internet knowledge can also help you keep it.)

This Website consists of two articles to help journalists learn how to use the Net on the job. In the first piece, "The Online Journalist, or Five Ways to Get Wired," new media experts like Elizabeth Osder of New York Times Online discuss the five major skills needed by 21st-century journalists.

The second article, "Online Toolkit," is a list of Internet resources that can come in handy when researching stories. You can either read a short piece about the resource by clicking on a wrench or skim a quick description and then click on a link to access the tool or a related resource.

This Website copyright 1997 by Janis Mara, a master's degree candidate at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, and David Carlson, director of the UF Interactive Media Lab.