Questions for Don Shelby

1) I'd like to ask Don Shelby about the changing job descriptions of journalists: reporters who are now also supposed to be shooters, and story editors also doing the video editing and posting to the blogs and organizations website. What impact does this have on the delivery of TV news? What is happening locally about this? It is a worldwide phenomenon: UK:Subeditors fired and journalisits given 31-point jpb descriptions

2) In a talk at the Twin Cities Media Alliance Conference this past Saturday, Channel 9 anchor Robyn Robinson had some suggestions about how we- the public including citizen journalists- can work with the mainstream media (what she called "the machine") to get our messages out. She outlined various techniques, suggesting that we had a responsibility to assist her and "the machine" she works in by making an effort to stay in touch with journalists. I'd like to know if Don Shelby concurs, and if he feels that the mainstream media now has a similar responsibility to stay in touch with what the new media is reporting as well.