AJR profiles online newsrooms

YOU NEED TO READ THIS ARTICLE!

Design isn’t a daily concern. Most homepages have a standard look, with a low-tech tool or template that lets editors post easily. Covering breaking news – especially crime, a role that had been appropriated by broadcast – is making a comeback. The running spot-news blog seems especially popular.

Most striking are two clear, probably transforming trends: a move toward merging online and print newsrooms, and a surge toward producing news almost around the clock. These changes may well revolutionize newsrooms, and they raise important questions. Who will produce the volumes of copy required? How will quality be monitored without the overlapping layers of editing? What will be stressed in hiring? How will all this affect the enduring and ingrained newsroom culture?

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Of course, it’s a very print-centric bit of writing, with only links to the four news sites, and no added value like photos, videos or audio, which makes it sort of sad as a web article.

My prediction is that integration of print and web is going to be pretty much a given over the next six months, and after that we’ll all wonder how we ever thought the newsroom wouldn’t change.

link found at Cyberjournalist.net

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