Opinion: "Multimedia pressure," with Jonathon Isaby

Posted by Sarah Schewe on August 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM

According to the The Daily Telegraph's outgoing political columnist, Jonathon Isaby, the "ultra-pressured environment" where journalists are expected to be all things to all people, writers, photographers, and multi-media gurus, always on top of their RSS feeds, means too many stories are falling by the way side.

The multi-media madness means that a journalist would never spend an afternoon digging through parliamentary records.

"People don't have the time to look through Hansard [the official parliamentary record] and look at parliamentary questions and answers which so often are the source of so many stories.

Even as Isaby critiques the new newsroom, in a case of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," is leaving the Telegraph to be co-editor of news blog ConservativeHome.

"I've seen the blogosphere taking shape and becoming more influential and powerful. I suppose, in a sense, it's a natural development for me to go and do this."

Source: Press Gazette