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2.0 vs Journalists. old guard, "incompatible or complementary?

While it is true that journalists can only be divided between good and bad, that is, those who do good work and who are unwilling, unable or do not know, do not is less than observed many differences between them in terms of age, especially among young people, ie those under 30 years and surpassing the half-century. Amid a third group would be located halfway between digital journalism and the old guard, something like a transitional generation, without being digital natives, as they can adapt to changing times.
is curious to observe how the older ones take different attitudes to the new tools that technology has placed in their hands, ranging from the most absolute contempt, to the commendable attempt to keep up, to those who, while recognizing their utility, or a spirit feel strong enough to change habits.
At the other extreme are the new generation of journalists are under 30 years have grown with the Internet, are constantly connected through social networks, can not imagine life without a mobile phone do not know what living without email, look at the fax with a mixture of surprise and ignorance and known only by hearsay typewriters. However, all this does not make them better professionals. As a generation
bridge, ie, still far from retirement, but with two decades of experience to the back, often look to both sides and see how far you are from each other, so radically different they are and how confident they are Both these types of be all right.
So now thanks to social networks are constant events to talk about this wonderful profession, coffee & journalism, BCN Medialab, Event Blog Spain (EBE), the Laboratory of Journalism, Press Association of Madrid ... - I miss any that address this generation gap, this different way of exercising the profession, this kind of distinction between traditional and online journalism .
And I consider it necessary to address this issue because I think they have much to learn from each other. Probably never had been living and working at the same time two very different ways of working. Thus, compared to the old guard in the street feels like a fish in water, which meets in person to all sources, which asserts its contacts in any situation, who hates writing and loves the bohemian and freedom que siempre ha tenido este trabajo, se encuentran esos jóvenes profesionales nacidos en la década de los ochenta, que se manejan en la web sin problemas, que saben buscar un dato en Internet en cuestión de segundos, que se enteran a través de Twitter de qué se está cociendo, antes de que ninguna agencia lance un teletipo…
¿Por qué renunciar a lo mejor de ambos mundos?, ¿por qué no tratar de combinar ambas formas de hacer periodismo? No podemos permitirnos el lujo de desaprovechar el talento de una generación que muy pronto dejará de trabajar, igual que éstos no deberían perderse lo que la tecnología es capaz de hacer.
Para los más jóvenes, más calle y menos writing, more talking to sources and less press release and official announcement, more information themselves and first-hand and less data than wikipedia. For more talluditos, more humility and less arrogance, more ability to learn and less closeness, more willingness to embrace new technologies and recognize their contribution and less contempt for ignorance. Thus, without doubt, the profession and readers will benefit.