The dreaded day is approaching. I keep seeing the signs and the warnings. I want to ignore them, but I can't. I only have 4 days left with my trial of Office 2008 for the mac.
The truth of the matter is I would not have been able to create my final projects if I didn't have these trials. I am a poor college student. I can't afford to buy the real versions, so I cherish every day the trial versions stay active.
With the changing business of journalism, many students need these programs to keep up with the times.
When I was preparing the assignment for the midterm in this class, I introduced this interview scenario for new journalists fresh out of college:
So you want to be a journalist huh?
Fair enough. Okay then can you work with flash? Indesign? How about photoshop? Final cut? Can you take pictures? Can you put them on our website? Can you take video? Can you put that online? How do you feel about interactivity? Do you twitter? Do you blog?
....oh and you can write?
The business of journalism needs to keep up with these demands. As many newspapers are forced to go online only, they need to make sure they avoid easy mistakes.
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