Press Association’s head of training, Tony Johnston, said today that journalists needed to become more entrepreneurial and numerate to take full advantage of digital developments in the industry.

Traditional reporting skills needed to be augmented with a greater level of technical training, Johnston said, to better equip journalist for the development of new forms of story telling involving sets of data.

‘Increasingly we are going to have to teach journalists to be more entrepreneurial in their outlook, thought processes, and the way they treat content,’he told the Westminster Media Forum, in London today.