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互联网技术为未来记者提供学习新途径

When Faith Miller wanted to study journalism in college she has never expected this. “I did not expect that in school I would report real stories and I did not know how much work I need to do.”

Unlike the students before, students at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism learn to deliver news across all platforms, including television, radio and the Web. “And that's not all,” said Willow Bay, leader of the School of Journalism. “Today we expect journalists to be able to use all sorts of technological tools to research stories, to check that research, to analyze that research. We expect them to get their stories in front of audiences and to spread those stories as far as they can.” They learn all those skills in a new media center. There is an interview desk in the middle of the center, with television monitors overhead broadcasting on different channels. More than 90 workstations are around the room. Student journalists can work on TV, radio and the Web at the same time.

Student journalists must also learn basic computer programming languages. They need to know how the Web works and be able to work with it. They need to use the different modern tools to tell stories.