An interview with Randy Covington, director of Newsplex

Five years ago, an international newspaper trade association opened something billed as the “newsroom of the future” in Columbia, S.C. The trade association was Ifra, a German-based newspaper publishing organization that was trying to…

Newspaper Next…

There are so many things a journalist has to be that just weren’t on the radar when I graduated and got my first full-time newspaper job in 1992. Here’s a couple more to add to the list: innovator and entrepreneur.

Interview with Chris Callahan

Chris Callahan is dean of Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. This year, the school announced it was creating new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. The center is being funded by both the Knight Foundation and…

Second Life…Or Get A Life?

One of the more daunting aspects of this project is the stipulation that we create our “Newsroom of the Future” in Second Life. I happened to be in Durham, N.C. having lunch with Gary Kebbel, the director of the Knight Challenge Grant program, when I first learned this was going to…

iTunesU

As this project gets rolling, one of my challenges is to get acquainted with the various digital efforts going on at Duke, both at The Chronicle, but also throughout the campus. I was thinking about this a couple weeks ago, when I got this random email from the Duke alumni association:

Welcome

Welcome to the Next Newsroom blog.

In the coming weeks, this will be a place where you can come for updates on our progress building the site, assembling our team, recruiting volunteers and devising our game plan. I want our process to be as transparent as possible, so I’ll be giving…

Central Campus update…

One of the inspirations for starting this project was the ambitious plans Duke University has for overhauling Central Campus. Officially, Duke has proposed creating a new student media center on this new campus, which could be home to The Chronicle, and as well as the student TV station…

Meet Roan Oh…

I finally got around to registering for Second Life. Which means, of course, that I created my avatar: Roan Oh. There’s some significance to the first name, which I may share later. But for now, here he/I is/am: