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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan<br />

when it is applied to news production and related practices. In my interview, many<br />

news workers showed their concerns about the issue because they think that it was<br />

hard to shift from one product culture (usually the newspaper culture) to another (e.g.<br />

television news culture).<br />

Even though the news workers in a single convergent newsroom have been trained<br />

and have learned multiple skills, they still have conflicts as to which content should<br />

be the first priority in their practical practices. For example, one photo journalist, who<br />

was also asked to shoot video, informed me that the principle of taking photo news<br />

and video news are slightly different although people think they are doing almost the<br />

same job. For him, a good news photo needs to capture the critical moment of a news<br />

event, but the video news tends to more likely emphasize on the motion aspect of the<br />

event. The photo journalist says:<br />

I do not have time to take video and take photos simultaneously, so if I<br />

focus on taking video, I usually lose a critical moment for my photo. I<br />

know some news companies which capture photos from their videos, but I<br />

think this is not the same as taking a photo (Respondent E, male, photo<br />

journalist from the Liberty Times).<br />

The second question about technology-learning in a single integrated newsroom is<br />

that some news workers worry that their workload might be increased when they<br />

know how to use everything. For example, one online news journalist said to me that<br />

she does want to learn so many skills because she will be asked to do more jobs<br />

when she knows how to use more technology. (Respondent H, female, journalists<br />

from ETtoday.com). Due to this reason, some news workers show a negative attitude<br />

about learning technologies. This will be further discussed later.<br />

Convergence, news flow and the daily working circle<br />

For most of the newspapers in Taiwan, a web-based space is their major platform for<br />

presenting the convergent news content and products. Almost all of the newspapers<br />

in Taiwan have launched their online versions, and some are web-only newspapers –<br />

newspapers which do not produce a printed version and can only be accessed online,<br />

and others are subordinate products for their original news media. That is, all news<br />

content on these websites is captured from their original media and the website does<br />

not produce any new stories. No matter what kinds of online news websites there are,<br />

the product circle and news flow are different between the printed and online news.<br />

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