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Essential skills journalists can teach themselves

A crowdsourced list of the most important skills journalists can teach themselves

Skills necessary for journalists change quickly. Here, Journalism.co.uk crowdsources what journalists believe the most important skills a journalist can teach themselves are. Among those skills:

  • Creating video and audio stories
  • Basic coding
  • Search engine optimization
  • Data visualization and statistics