Tour of Jump Associates

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We visited the San Mateo offices of Jump, which the company designed to help foster innovation.

Birmingham News, Jan 17 2008

At 1:40 this afternoon, a soft hum permeated the 110,000 square feet of The Birmingham News. Editor Tom Scarritt exclaimed, “It makes it feel alive, and I like that.” His second floor newsroom is part of a grand new headquarters for the city’s morning paper, which circulates…

Do newspapers get it?

As mentioned in my previous post, I work for a software company offering a variety of web 2.0 services of user-generated media, comments & ratings, blogs, and forums to the newspaper industry. As a vendor, it has been extremely frustrating to get newspapers to adopt, or especially actively…

My angle on the Next Newsroom

I am not a journalist, and have never wanted to be. While I try to stay on top of the news, I havent subscribed to a newspaper in over a decade, and when I did it did more to fill my recycling bin than anything else. I read the Chronicle, but didn’t even know where there…

A few big themes…

This year continues to speed by. I’ll be flying to Durham, N.C. this weekend to huddle with The Chronicle’s board to clarify our plans going forward. The next step will begin right after that, as we write our first draft of the proposal that will become the Next Newsroom.

Former restroom becomes newsroom

Trinity Western University’s student newspaper, Mars’ Hill, (named after the place where Greeks and Romans waxed eloquent in past centuries), is a biweekly for a student population of approximately 4,000. The newsroom is located in a former dorm and the staff was appalled…