Question: What importance do leading news media attribute to journalism training?
When it comes to continuous journalistic training, it´s a lot of similarities between the different news media. There is little training of the journalists when they start working, but the companies rather have courses occasionally. Every company say they provide professional training, in form of courses, transferring of knowledge from other colleagues or hired personnel. Some of the training is also based on everyday knowledge when working as a journalist: “In addition, we have internal training and transfer of skills. Such as how to get access, how to interpret documents, how the judiciary takes place and how to read accounting”.
The journalists seem to benefit from the training whenever they have the opportunity. Two of the interviewed journalists have worked in the media industry for a long time and have been on many courses through the years.
Many of the respondents also points out that much of what is known as good journalism is already imbedded in each journalist in the way they think and act in their work. One of the journalists still pointed out that as a journalist, one is never done learning new things.
The professional training offered by the media companies is one thing, but journalists also talk about how journalists help each other when and where they can. If one journalist is to write a case where the person does not have enough knowledge, one often goes to colleagues and asks for help. Therefore, it seems to be some form of internal training between the journalists as well as the courses provided for them.
The leading news media look at journalism training as very important and send their journalists to courses on a regularly basis. The threshold is low for journalists to help each other in the newsroom on a daily basis and this is also seen as a form of training and transfer of knowledge.
Credits: 3 (continuous “knowledge” training for journalists in news media are available)
Intervju:
Fra intervjuene om de bruker kurs/opplæring for hvordan journalistene skal drive gravejournalistikk:
Bergens Tidende, sjefredaktør:
Ja, det har vi. [forteller at hun kan sende over full oversikt etter intervjuet]. Vi har blant annet hentet inn folk utenfra som er og veileder på prosjekter og kurs. Vi har sendt journalister nå nylig på sånn bellingcat-kurs og etter at de kom hjem, de som fikk lov til å dra på det kurset, hadde de en oppsummering for, altså delte det videre til kollegene som ikke fikk dra. Så vi har mye sånt. Så har vi jo litt samarbeid med senter for undersøkende journalistikk [på media city bergen], men det er ikke så mye foreløpig. Men det som er viktig, lese metoderapporten på SKUP er jo kjempeviktig. Det er jo ikke et kurs, men likevel, engasjementet er viktig.
Nettavisen, sjefredaktør:
Ja. Altså, vi spinner på en måte hælsiden rundt, at vi ikke beveger oss inn på problematikken “Hva er undersøkende journalistikk?”. Det er jo ingen journalister i dag som ikke har fagkunnskaper om et eller annet. De har enten universitetsutdannelse eller høyskole journalistikk. Det er jo i høy grad en metodeutdanning. I tillegg har vi jo intern opplæring og kompetanseoverføring. Sånn som innsynsrett, hvordan tolket dokumenter, hvordan foregår rettsvesenet og hvordan leser du et regnskap. Den type ting har vi også intern opplæring i som kunnskapsoverføring.
