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However, technology change of such a scale requires careful handling
and it is in this area that JP appears to have its main problems.
Journalists generally are employed for their wordmanship and their
investigative abilities. Now their task requirements would seem to be
about fitting square pegs into round holes. Moreover, in order to do this
they need to learn new skills and change their local focus to a national
one.
Likewise editors are placed in a similar dilemma with the addition that
overall staff availability is falling and content may be sourced from non-
professional contributors.
This article was posted on the 25 April 2016 in Wings Over Scotland
