CNN’s News Hires Must Have Digital Chops
Victor Hernandez, CNN’s program manager for editorial systems, says the news organization is on the lookout for the kind of journalists who have digital versatility coded into their DNA. In part two of a two-part interview with NetNewsCheck, Hernandez discusses those qualities, particularly the rising role of curators who can separate the signals from the unfiltered noise that can drown a newsroom in too much information. Read part one here. Full Story | Add comment
CNN’s Futurist Sees Shift On UGC, Wearables
Victor Hernandez, CNN’s program manager for editorial systems, says wearable technology such as Google Glass is coming and media companies would do well to see it intertwined with users’ behavior on their other screens. Hernandez also says that user-generated content has been elevated to a new level of importance, holding an equal footing with the network’s professional journalism.
