Comments on: If your news business died would you reinvent it?

By: Julie Starr

Julie Starr — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:53:40 +0000

Print people have a look? :) I think I did to a degree, yes. I was hugely enthusiastic about the web and the change programme, as you know, but print was still my point of reference. At least in so far as I still thought about news as being 'the news' which was created in newsrooms by news companies and published in editions of one form or another (even the content posted for the lunchtime viewing peak being a kind of edition). My print frame of reference kind of limited my imagination and I hadn't yet got my head around really different news concepts like what they've done at everyblock.com.

By: Ian Douglas

Ian Douglas — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:48:25 +0000

Did you really feel like a print person throughout? You didn’t look it.

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By: Julie Starr

Julie Starr — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:11:33 +0000

Yeah, it’s hard to imagine how big a difference it does make to have some time to explore online. Good luck with whatever you do next, Wendy.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:55:20 +0000

“It wasn’t until I left print completely and spent the last couple of years mucking around and reading widely online, started blogging myself and realising first-hand the power of links, of self-publishing, communities, conversational media, shared knowledge, niche publishing, the breadth and depth of knowledge and content available online, that I really started to understand how profoundly different the internet makes everything.”

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Perfectly said. I had the same experience, and am continuing to explore this terrain more after taking a newspaper buyout. I wish more print-oriented journalists could have had this experience, because it makes all the difference in the world.

It’s all about embracing how journalists can use new media, but that’s still going to take a lot more work.