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The research was designed to investigate the impact on the working practices of journalists of the process of production convergence \u2013 the trend towards news reporting in more than one medium in formerly single\u2010medium organisations. The article describes the changes that are taking place and the ways journalists are reacting to them.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>Interviews were conducted with 20 journalists during 2002 and 2003. The interviews were with journalists working in newsrooms at the BBC, Sky News,<jats:italic>The Guardian<\/jats:italic>and the<jats:italic>Financial Times.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The data show that while multimedia news is becoming well established, the multimedia journalist has been slow to arrive. 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