Sustaining Vision
Competency Modeling to Understand Best Practices for Visual Editors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12908629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Smith-Rodden (Ball State University, corresponding author), Marissa L Wiley (0000-0001-5627-5319, University of Kansas) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1941-1959 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17512786.2022.2141818 |
| OpenAlex | W4308450597 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Given the rapidly evolving media ecosystem, the need for excellence in visual storytelling and high-performance among those doing that work has never been more critical. Similarly, practitioners maintain that innovation, entrepreneurial thinking, and novel solutions have never been more needed in media organizations. To help identify best practices, competency modeling is useful to optimize and understand the performance of visual editors. Subject matter interviews with 29 experts in a wide variety of media organizations reveal five competencies: professional, management, leadership, communication, and entrepreneurial. Visual editors noted that experience, technology training, media ethics, socially-supportive communication, and advocating for visual work across departments were key components of their work. Implications for best practices, selection, and training of these specialists are discussed, as well as the entrepreneurial nature of their pivotal role. A key insight for media organizations in need of innovative and entrepreneurial activity is that the change agents they need might be found in-house: among the ranks of visual editors
Best practice · Engineering ethics · Excellence · Knowledge management · Multimedia · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Storytelling · Variety (cybernetics · Visual Communication · Work (physics · Architecture, Art, Education · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Storytelling and Education · Engineering · Psychology
Entrepreneurial competencies
The relative importance of task, citizenship, and counterproductive performance to global ratings of job performance
An Introduction to Qualitative Research
The Modeling and Assessment of Work Performance
The Future of Professional Photojournalism
Word People vs. Picture People
Freelance Photojournalists and Photo Editors
Entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship
Gatecheckers at the Visual News Stream
In search of visual expertise
Putting the Work (back) into Newswork
Does Photojournalism Matter? News Image Content and Presentation in the Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record Before and After Layoffs of the Photojournalism Staff
Out of the frame
Visual Gatekeeping – Selection of News Photographs at a Flemish Newspaper
An Application of the Theory of Expertise
Two Decades of Developments in Qualitative Inquiry
Determining Validity in Qualitative Inquiry
Snowball Sampling
Coding In-depth Semistructured Interviews
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |