The Next Newsroom

State of the newspaper industry

Inside Newsrooms Today
Shrinking resources
Still not online first
Culture resists change
Low morale

Knight Foundation News Challenge
EveryBlock.com
Campus Media incubators
Journalism degrees for programers
Citizen Journalism
Video games for news
Only one journalist from a daily newspaper

What we did
Announced plans to “blow up the newsroom.”
Adopted a “human-centered” design program
Themes
Yup, everyone uses Google
Other people
Choice
Conversations
Built prototypes
Redefined every job in the newsroom

“ There’s often a lot of blood on the floor.” -Saf Fahim, Archronica Architects

Newsrooms are all the same

Look outside the U.S. for innovation
El Tiempo; Bogota, Columbia
Nordjyske Medier; Aalborg, Denmark
The Daily Telegraph; London, England
The Eleftheros Tipos; Athens, Greece

The Daily Telegraph

The Eleftheros Tipos

What we’ve learned about The Next Newsroom
Integrated
Innovative
Collaborative
Adaptable
Transparent

Integrated
Embrace all platforms
Go to where the audience is
Understand how audience consumes media
Shape journalism to fit those platforms
Great journalism looks different online
Rob Curley
“ Not Just A Number”
Different workflows
Washington Post
New York Times
Superdesk at Daily Telegraph

Innovative
Last 150 years: static
Now: constant change
Salon

Jump Associates

Collaborative
Work with other groups
Disband and reform
Interact with different sectors

Stata Center, MIT

Adaptable
Assume everything will be constantly reconfigured
No wires
Everything on wheels

Transparent
Hard to know where newsroom ends, community begins
Community at the center
Physical transparency in spaces

New jobs
Programmer journalists
Media Conductors
Backpack journalists
Cybrarians
Community managers

Thank you
Chris O’Brien
San Jose Mercury News
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415-298-0207

The Next Newsroom

by Society for New Communications Research (SNCR)

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