Editor's Weblog has a round-up of comments on the benefits and challenges of integrating web-and-print newsrooms from news execs who've done so. Here's a couple to be getting on with but the whole piece is worth checking out.
Azubuike Ishiekwene, Executive Director, Punch Nigeria:
The question of integration is not optional - it's functional.
Reportr.net caught up with my former colleague Chris Lloyd, assistant managing editor of Telegraph Media Group, at the Online Journalism Symposium in Austin, Texas. He talked about the challenges the group faced in integrating its newsroom, including structural and cultural changes. Worth a listen if you haven't heard much about the process of integration before.
I came across this journalism.co.uk report quoting Telegraph Media Group's digital chief Ed Roussel and thought it was worth a re-run. Roussel was talking at the DNA2008 conference about the role of editors in the Telegraph's integrated newsroom and how they go about commissioning and publishing stories online.
Irish Times has begun integrating its print newsroom with website Ireland.com. It is aiming for a 24-hour newsroom.
Knowing that I worked on a major newsroom integration project at the Telegraph in London, it will come as no surprise that I think integrating web and print is a good idea.
This from Roy Greenslade. It’s a pretty comprehensive wrap of the moves UK newspapers have made and are continuing to make in integration. It’s well worth a browse, especially the sections about the Times, Telegraph and Financial Times and the various approaches they are taking. I notice he mentions that the FT are using Methode, [...]
Martin Newlands, a former Daily Telegraph editor, talks to Sky about the layout of the integrated newsroom he's building for a new English-language paper in Abu Dhabi. "I am, frankly, ripping off the design from The Daily Telegraph," he says.
The Guardian reports that the UK's Independent and its sister Sunday title the Independent on Sunday are merging their business desks into a seven-day operation. Shouldn't be difficult finding room around the desk for everyone, the Sunday was down to one staff business reporter anyway.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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