-We run a journalist education. One of the very few non university
-ones that is ok:d by Svenska journalistförbundet, and that gives the
-pupils the right of membership there, once they are done. (Important
-if you want to get a job.)
-
-InDesign is the program most commonly used in newspapers and
-magazines. We used Quark Express before, but they seem to loose there
-market to Adobe. The only "equivalent" to InDesign in the opensource
-world is Scribus, and its not advanced enough. At least not according
-to the teacher. I think it would be possible to use it, because they
-are not supposed to learn a program, they are supposed to learn how to
-edit and compile a newspaper. But politically at our school we are not
-there yet. And Scribus lacks a lot of things you find i InDesign.
-
-We used even a windows program for sound editing when it comes to the
-radio-journalist part. The year to come we are going to try
-Audacity. That software has the same kind of limitations compared to
-Adobe Audition, but that teacher is a bit more openminded. We have
-tried Ardour also, but that instead is more like a music studio
-program, not intended for the kind of editing taking place in a radio
-studio. Its way to complex and the gui is to scattered when you only
-want to cut, make passovers, add extra channels and normalize. Thoose
-things you can do in Audacity, but its not as easy as in Audition. You
-have to do more things manually with envelopes, and that is a bit old
-fashion and timewasting. Its also harder to cut and move sound from
-one channel to another, which is a thing that you do frequentlly
-because you often find yourself needing to rearrange parts of the
-sound file.
-
-So, I am not sure we will succed in replacing even Audition, but we
-will try. Problem is the students have certain expectations when they
-start an education towards a profession. So the programs has to look
-and feel professional. Good thing with radio, there are many programs
-out there, that radio studios use, so its not as standardised as
-Newspaper editing. That means, it does not really matter what program
-they learn, because once they start working they still have to learn
-the program the studio uses, so instead focus has to be to learn the
-editing part without to much focus on a specific software.