One person doing the reporting and producing news in multiple formats.
Today, for the first time, I have found the perfect term to describe what I’ve been doing as a professional communicator. Every time I say that I am journalist, most of my interlocutors think that I have only written articles for newspapers, magazines or internet.
Even though every story has, technically, a text behind itself, as a backpack journalist I have been asked mainly to improve my technical skills in order to expand the way of telling stories. In a convergence era of communication, ordinary people assume that it is possible find the same story in different formats: video, photo, audio and text.
Video (recording and edition), photo, social media and, surely, text are platforms with which I have had to deal with daily so as to be able to choose which one would be better for each specific audience.
I appreciate it. I really like being a backpack journalist. Having the courage to face the challenge of engaging audiences helps me to become a better communicator. Pushing me to think outside the box when I have to reach different audiences.