Real Estate’s Impact on Newsroom Design

Transcribed by Blake White from John Gering’s session: Real Estate’s Impact on Newsroom Design

1. Know your goal, because the business goal drives the design.

“How can the newsroom management structure be reinvented? Part 2

Bryan Murley led the discussion.

He began by urging participants to break from the old way of relegating Web journalists/journalism to the back of the newsroom and the back of the news planning…

How can we use social media in the newsroom?

Take-away for Chronicle:

ü List of favorite social networking sites or tools (see below)

ü Several comments on how journalists can use these networks (i.e., using Facebook to make contact in…

How do we change from the “old” to the “new”?

Notes courtesy Greg Linch
Facilitated by John North, Knoxville News Sentinel

What is the new world?
“It’s publishing now, we don’t wait.”

How can we break down the walls that separate print and broadcast in journalism schools?

Sasha Norkin, Moderator 
Chronicle to consider: This is difficult because the Chronicle is not a lab newspaper for a journalism school or communications department. But, Chronicle…

How can we harness the power of crowds in the newsroom?

This is an afternoon session at the Duke Next Newsroom seminar in Durham, N.C. These notes are by Bill Densmore of a breakout called by John Keefe of WNYC radio in New York City. he’s talking about “How can we harness the power of…

What are the physical spaces needed?

(Notes from Beth Lawton; Session facilitate by John Keefe)

Physical Spaces

Newsrooms are traditionally less traditional than normal offices. We’ll assume the physical space has to exist (not going toward a virtual…

New business models for the Next Newsroom

Chronicle take-away: The session raised good questions for framing the issues, even if solutions seem scarce at the moment. (See top of Bill Densmore’s notes.) — The group was generally skeptical of models that require users to pay for content. — Display…

Live Blog from Day 1 of the Next Newsroom Conference

How can student media create the capacity for their staffs to experiment?

Take-away for Chronicle: Both framing questions and the list below of ideas and suggestions.

Session 4: How can student media create capacity for their staffs to experiment and…