Lack of Unions Makes Florida the Convergence State

But it’s not all sunshine for the ongoing experiments in combining print, broadcast and online. The dark side is revealed during the annual convergence symposium at the University of Florida, as reported by Mark Glaser over at OJR.

“The problem could be one of mindset. TV people might think newspaper people aren’t fit for going on-air, and their print reports obviously need to be doctored for broadcast. Newspaper people might think that TV people are simply blow-dried actors reading lines. And the Web people are viewed by everyone else as just nerds in the back room.”

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