A chance to deliver news and information to consumers in a new and different way, or to expand the franchise (Howard Tyner, Former editor of the Chicago Tribune and later
senior vice-president of the Tribune Company, and Gil Thelen, publisher of the Tampa Tribune).
Dichotomy
Business View
multiple-platform as a tool for increased productivity and
marketing
disadvantages
Organizations will need to invest in wingspread training, to teach journalists
skilled in one medium how to tell stories
Convergence would not save money: "Is a growth strategy instead of a saving strategy".
Kerry Northrup
advantages
Increase productivity
One campaign in a variety of formats (Co-opertition)
Reach multiple audiences
Journalist aspirations
To do a better journalism
advantage
Every new medium offers innovative ways to tell stories
Find the most appropriate medium for telling the story
offers the audience new ways of absorbing news
disadvantages
Most journalist do not have the level of technical expertise.
Training has never been a high priority in many newsrooms
It is not possible for one person to cover a major story adequately for all media
Multiple-platform delivery should be create "to help people live more easily" Gil Thelen
Convergence is growing
The convergence is being impelled by multiple factors, between them, the attitudes and lifestyle of new consumers, market fragmentation
the still to cover the biggest number of possible members of the audience as possible highly is very attractive. Also, the advances of
technology do that the persons gain access increasingly to multimedia contents
In conclution
Convergence and Its tools produce large changes in the creation, publication and acceptance of the
contents published in the mass media. Although it has high barriers , it also offers many
opportunities and you need to make a proper investment and training journalists to use it the best
way possible and get the best results.