Tag Archives: change management
If your news business died would you reinvent it?
Clay Shirky does a nice job exploring the biggest challenge currently facing news companies: that for the most part they are populated with people unaware of how profoundly the internet changes everything. Most people working in news organisations think their company will continue in roughly the same form but will publish a website as well as a newspaper. Or will continue in the same form and publish a website and a mobile site and to social media sites as well as a newspaper. Or will continue in the same form and publish everywhere online and to a Kindle instead of a newspaper.
Posted in Business Models, Journalism, Mobile & Tablets, Newspapers Also tagged clay shirky, distribution, Newspapers 5 Comments
Transform your newsroom: the Telegraph model
From the Nieman Reports published by Harvard comes a piece written by Edward Roussel, the digital editor at Telegraph Media Group in London who manages telegraph.co.uk and was a prime mover in the Telegraph’s integrated newsroom project. It’s a worthwhile read as these excerpts demonstrate: Newspapers still tend to define themselves by their paper rather [...]
First step in bringing change: find the believers
Erik Ulken has posted a must-read top 10 list of lessons learned while setting up the data desk in the LA Times newsroom.
The data desk's job is to take detailed information that's dreary to read in text or table form and make it useful by presenting it in compelling and interactive formats. A well-known example is the LA Time's Homicide Map.
The data desk's job is to take detailed information that's dreary to read in text or table form and make it useful by presenting it in compelling and interactive formats. A well-known example is the LA Time's Homicide Map.
Newspaper executives: if you don’t use the web you’ll never understand it
I enjoyed this rant from music blog The Lefsetz Letter which has a go at newspaper executives who are "online ignorant, even if they can speak the language, they’ve got no insight, because they don’t utilize the damn thing". He starts by noting how cross newspaper executives are with the likes of TradeMe and CraigsList for stealing their lucrative classified ads (Fairfax bought TradeMe to get them back again, although whether they're properly leveraging the deal is another story).
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Ten tips for kick-starting a malnourished news website