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# Learning to be a mutable journalist
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2011/09/learning_to_be_a_mutable_journalist/
- Published: 2011-09-19T17:02:51.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:19:26.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: employment, Journalism, Journalists, workstyles

Since my job morphed from “head of blog development” to “editorial development manager” (which happened a while before the job title change), I’ve struggled to give a clear, one sentence description of what I do. The closest I’ve got is “figure out how changes in technology, journalism and social media present us with business opportunities as a publisher – and then do everything I can to make sure we take advantage of that”. Not exactly a conversation-starter at a dinner party.

This problem is afflicting the whole of journalism, I think. Jobs are becoming less defined as the work we do becomes more mutable. [Arnold King sums up this trend in employment thus](http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/09/the%5Fjob-seekers.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> The paradox is this. A job seeker is looking for something for a well-defined job. But the trend seems to be that if a job can be defined, it can be automated or outsourced.
> 
> The marginal product of people who need well-defined jobs is declining. The marginal product of people who can thrive in less structured environments is increasing.

Something to think about…

\[via [Jackie Danicki](http://jackiedanicki.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/what-do-you-do-2/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)\]