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Articles tagged newsroom culture (53)

Joseph LichtermanJuly 10, 2017

“There’s an opportunity to go deep”: What’s next for Rafat Ali’s growing travel site Skift, 5 years in

“One of the things that we try to do, and I think it has worked well for us, is to surprise and delight. Surprise and delight is a marketing tactic. In our case, it’s essentially constantly launching new things so that the industry is constantly surprised.”

Zachary M. SewardMay 14, 2015

“Quartz is an API”: The path ahead for the business site that’s reshaping digital news

“So when we say Quartz is an API, we don’t mean publish once and send it everywhere. We mean Quartz can go anywhere our readers are, in whatever form is appropriate.”

Caroline O'DonovanJanuary 16, 2015

What Knight-Mozilla OpenNews has learned about preparing non-journalists for the newsroom

What would you tell someone who’s never worked in a newsroom what it’s like to work in journalism?

Caroline O'DonovanJanuary 14, 2015

Q&A: Amy O’Leary on eight years of navigating digital culture change at The New York Times

“In 2007, as digital people, we were expected to be 100 percent deferent to all traditional processes. We weren’t to bother reporters or encourage them to operate differently at all, because what they were doing was the very core of our journalism.”

Peter GumbelSeptember 22, 2014

From Nieman Reports: Digital is bringing un grand dérangement to French news institutions

Ousted editors, newsroom revolts, and government subsidies — welcome to French journalism’s battle for survival.

Joseph LichtermanJune 16, 2014

How do sports reporters at newspapers adapt to the Internet? Often, grudgingly

Sports reporters often lead their newsrooms in activity on social media. That doesn’t mean they have to like it.

Joseph LichtermanJune 10, 2014

Chatting with bots: How Slack is changing how newsrooms talk amongst themselves

Only a few months old, the chat app has gotten major uptake in digitally savvy newsrooms. Death to email!

The New York Times is restructuring its Page 1 meetings to be more digital (as that big report suggested)

Matt DeRienzoMay 23, 2014

Newsrooms need HR specialists, not just technologists, in top leadership

Not in the rote, paperwork-and-process sense of HR. Newsrooms aren’t good enough at finding, using, and improving the talents of their staffs.

John WihbeyApril 30, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: How Facebook rumors spread, and the rise of the collaborative news clip

How the web is playing out for local TV reporters, measuring customer satisfaction with paywalls, and how reporters think about comments: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

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