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Pneumatic story delivery
Another piece of nostalgia from the NZ Herald Manual of Journalism 1967. Pneumatic tubes as a story delivery system within newsrooms were before my time but what a shame, they look cracking.
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Mistakes are built into the system
I've had a few interesting conversations this week about quality control in newsrooms, in part sparked by the diagram I posted last week showing how many pairs of hands various kinds of news stories go through before being published. One thing that came up was how irritated people are by the number of typos regularly seen on news websites - including nzherald.co.nz and stuff.co.nz. As Nathan said in a recent comment, "I generally expect better of professionals."
PA chooses open source
"We were being asked to do things that we just couldn't bend the system any further to do." Sound familiar? That's PA's IT development manager Paul Berman talking to Silicon.com about the company's decision to use an open source platform, Nuxeo, to build a better content management system.
Just tell me what button to push
I like this post from Scott Karp on Publishing 2.0 about the need for simplicity in newsroom systems. He quotes a newspaper exec who wanted any new system to be "so seamless, so transparent, so idiot-proof that I can do it without training — and so that it doesn’t add more than a heartbeat to my day."
Newspapers and the cloud