For newspaper companies, a learning culture is required.

Howard B. Owens
1 min readFeb 14, 2016

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Throughout my employed journalism career I was dismayed and frustrated by a culture that resisted learning new skills, gaining new knowledge. It’s not the company’s responsibility that you learn new things because those new skills will advance your career within and without your current company. You benefit, your current and future employers benefit. That’s why it’s the employee’s responsibility. The employee is in charge of his or her destiny, but it should also be a condition of employment. That’s how legacy companies deal with disruption. There’s no place for people unwilling to advance themselves in companies that want to move forward. AT&T is doing it right. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-the-cloud-att-tells-its-workers-adapt-or-else.html

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Howard B. Owens

Journalist. Photographer. Coder. Publisher, The Batavian. Founder, Album Corp. Batavia by way of San Diego, Ventura, Bakersfield. Online news since 1995.