Sree Sreenivasan and Vadim Lavrasik write about future journalism, or rather the journalist of the future at Mashable. The traditional skills and values of journalism--story-telling, research, and the like-- will be important in the future. However, the future journalist will have to supplement these with an emerging digital skill set.

The lone wolf journalist will be replaced by the collaborative journalist--the future journalist will work with any number of colleagues, including "citizen journalists" (i.e., bloggers), and segments of the audience. Traditional narrative skills will be crucial, but narratives will be produced and show on many different platforms. Curating and linkblogging are two buzz words in the tech blogosphere. The future journalist will not just produce original content, but will collect, edit and filter content created by others. The future journalist will need business savvy, an entrepreneurial attitude and an aptitude for metrics and measurement.

In short the future journalist will have to develop the social media skills of the blogger and the digital preservation skills of the librarian/information scientist. Vadim Lavrasik makes many of the same point in another Mashable piece. Both Lavrasik and Sreenivasan have blogs and Twitter feeds. Contact information is available on the linked posts.