Digital superstar Rob Curley, of washingtonpost.com, says the key to being a successful journalist today is the same as it was 25 years ago - you have to write well. He urges students to embrace new technology and be open-minded about how they tell stories but warns that they can't forget the basics. You still need strong reporting and writing skills to succeed. If you don't believe that read this post from Dr. James F. McGrath, assistant professor of religion at Butler University. In his experience, student journalists are forgetting the basics. And that's made him leery of giving interviews to student journalists.
So what do you think? If you're writing for the web, do you need the same reporting and storytelling skills you needed to write for print?
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