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to use a computer, she asked rhetorically. A decade from now, she
said, they would similarly not hire anyone who could not “slide across
media.” The Tribune Company’s Howard Tyner believes that journal-
ism’s future lies in the area of multimedia, and “we need to embrace
it” (2004). Technology will continue to produce innovations that con-
sumers like, and editorial managers have to learn to deal with change.
In terms of multimedia, he said, journalists needed to jump on the
bandwagon “in a smart way before somebody else does it and has us
for lunch in the process.”

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American Press Institute: http://www.americanpressinstitute.org
The Media Center: http://www.mediacenter.org
The Newsplex: http://www.newsplex.org
The Poynter Institute: http://www.poynter.org
The Reynolds Foundation: http://www.dwreynolds.org