I think 'telecapable' is the right word. We're not trying to remake newspaper people into something they're not. But what we are trying to do is work with them, so they're good on the air. A couple are Old Basics, as it turns out. But new technology has brought them back.
All journalism training teaches deadline survival.
But we're talking here about advanced deadline survival. This does not bode well for people like me, who like to hyperventilate and rewrite leads a dozen times as the clock ticks down. That is not nearly as ambitious as the multidextrous University of Kansas class Chris Harvey writes about in her report on new-media training . For students who have grown up learning to think on keyboards, this may require some practice. I sent my gang running for phones a few weeks into the semester, immediately after a high-profile press conference by a local police chief.