Danny
In places where I've developed a publishing team, it's been about having multi-skilled trained journalists, with all working through a reasonably structured regime, doing sub-editing, pic-editing, alt-tagging and captioning. There's an editor reading and final-checking and signing-off content on a continuous basis.
I think the title of Webmaster goes back to the bad old days where the person who built the site also had to upload the content, because it was woven from hand-made HTML and no-one else could do it. In addition to the journalists, I always yearned for an in-house developer, though, to tune CSS and invent neat new ways to customise [and break!] the site.
Maybe the ultimate web publishing team wish-list includes a technical sub-editor as well as the above editorial roles; though that person would also need to generate content too, in the current climate.
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Subject: Where have all the webmasters gone?
Hi list
This is by way of a quick poll of intuitional experience -- all replies & thoughts very gratefully received....
Is the idea of the "webmaster" role now completely out of date*? Back in the day, I used to work with someone whose job title was webmaster: their responsibility was basically the AMP part of the LAMP stack; or everything between the operating system and the content, often across a range of different internal and public-facing websites.
Have such positions now been split/absorbed into either 'IT' or 'development'? Do such jobs still exist? A quick web search yields lots of very out-of-date descriptions of the position. Do any of you have institutional webmasters? What are their responsibilities? Does anyone have a recent job description they can share?
Thanks very much for your help
Danny
*the implicit sexism in the job title is not under consideration here
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