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A few notes on innovation

By Julie Starr | Published: June 12, 2011

I’ve just enjoyed reading The Medici Effect after picking it up on impulse a week or so ago. Frans Johansson’s 2006 book looks at how innovation is enhanced when people from different disciplines come together to tackle problems. He calls it the intersection. When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines or cultures, you [...]

Posted in Innovation, Journalism | Also tagged Amabile, Bob Sutton, Harvard, ideas, innovation, Innovators Dilemma, JK Rowling, Journalism, Medici Effect, nat torkington, Picasso, stanford, startups, TED, webstock | 3 Comments

Finished? No, it’s the story so far

By Julie Starr | Published: March 25, 2008

Shane Richmond (the Telegraph's Communities Editor) does a good job revisiting the issue of what 'finished' looks like in the fast-paced world of digital publishing. In print, a story wasn't published until it was 'finished': written, edited, edited again, sub-edited, sub-edited again, proofread and so on. Only then did we hit 'send' and hand it over to the printers - at around 9.30pm, the deadline for the first edition of a daily newspaper.

Posted in Journalism, Newspapers, Social Media | Also tagged Shane Richmond, Telegraph, web-first, workflow | Leave a comment