Tag Archives: newsrooms
The inky days of journalism
For the nostalgics among you, here's a cracker of an educational video from the days when women worked on the social pages, typesetters ruled, sub-editors wore visors and syndicated copy was mimeographed.
Lifecycle of a news 2.0 story
UK journalist Alison Gow does a nice job breaking down the lifecycle of a news story - how we used to do it in newspapers and how we can do it now using web2.0 tools and networks. Here's an excerpt: Step One. Reporter gets potential story (Web 1.0). Via: Phone call or meeting with contact; letter to the editor; email; comment on the newspaper's web forum; item in a publication or website; video on YouTube; punter walking in to the front office and asking to speak to a journalist.
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Wish my schools had a newsroom like this
Can't help but be impressed by the scope of this school newsroom at the City University of New York.
UK Telegraph talks about a year of newsroom integration
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.
Pneumatic story delivery