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News rewired:
Creating the digital newsroom
Paul Flewelling
FAIRFAX MEDIA
What’s this session about?
A digital transformation
What is a digital transformation?
Digital transformation may be thought as the third 

stage of embracing digital technologies:
3
TRANSFORMATION
2
LITERACY
1
COMPETENCE
In a narrower sense, "digital transformation" may 

refer to the concept of “going paperless.” Wikipedia
Fairfax’s digital transformation
This is the story of a journey in two parts…
Part 1: a look in the rearview mirror
Part 2: the road ahead
FOCUS
FOCUS
LEARNING

FROM THE
TRANSFORMATION
SO FAR
My role in this transformation
A little history…
BLUNDELL BROS
1865 Prints The
Evening Post
E
INDEPENDENT NEWS
1972 Consolidates
resources
WELLINGTON PUBLISHING
1907 Prints The Dominion
D
STUFF.CO.NZ
2000 Goes live
s
A little history…
VODAFONE
2003 Partnership
creates mobile offering
2002 Merges Dominion
and Evening Post
INDEPENDENT NEWS
FAIRFAX
2003 Acquires INL’s
80 publications
M.STUFF.CO.NZ
2009 Goes live
A little history…
iOS APPS
2010 Go live
ANDROID APPS
2011 Go live
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
2013 MANDATE Where our
journey really begins
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
2012 MANDATE Where our
journey really begins
Digital transformation
FAIRFAX NEWSPAPERS NZ
iOS APPS ANDROID APPS
M.STUFF.CO.NZ
STUFF.CO.NZ s
FAIRFAX MAGAZINES NZ
FAIRFAX NEWSPAPERS NZ
Digital transformation
NEWS SYNDICATION
USER GENERATED STORIES
FAIRFAX NEWSPAPERS
AUS
FAIRFAX MAGAZINES NZ
FAIRFAX MAGAZINES AUS
FAIRFAX NEWSPAPERS NZ
iOS APPS ANDROID APPS
M.STUFF.CO.NZ
STUFF.CO.NZ s
ACTIVITY: Who reads the news?
Transforming to digital-centric
STARTED WITH
PRINT
Transforming to digital-centric
PRINT SHARES
DISTRIBUTION &
INFRASTRUCTURE
Transforming to digital-centric
DIGITAL PRINT
INTRODUCED
SHARES
DISTRIBUTION &
INFRASTRUCTURE
Transforming to digital-centric
PRINTFAIRFAXDIGITAL
TOUCHES
ALL ASPECTS
OF PRINT
BUSINESS
OVER TIME
DIGITAL BECOMES PRIMARY
PUBLISHING PLATFORMDIGITAL FIRST
DIGITALPRINT
Transforming to digital-centric
TOUCHES
ALL ASPECTS
OF PRINT
OVER TIME
DIGITAL BECOMES PRIMARY
PUBLISHING PLATFORM
DIGITAL FIRST
The printing press
The internet changed everything
Subject to silo thinking
A digital audience using multiple mediums
Some vanity metrics
MAY 2014
MAY 2015
0 million 1 million 2 million
0 million 1 million 2 million
1.47 million unique browsers 25.7% increase
1.85 million unique browsers
Some more vanity metrics
2,879
Google
2,305
Facebook
1,871
MSN
1,782
Trademe
1,849
Stuff
Some more vanity metrics
of our
audience
is mobile
50%
Some more vanity metrics
Some more vanity metrics
of our
audience
is mobile
50%
CREATING THE DIGITAL NEWSROOM
ALIGNED
CONTENT
SIMPLIFY PRINT
PRODUCTION
QUALITY FIRST
TRAINING
DIGITAL FIRST
PROGRAM
Build a modern digital publishing platform
Restructure the newsroom to deliver audience focused content
The two streams of our transformation
CONNECT
DIGITAL WITH
PRINT
FLEXIBLE
PUBLISHING
PLATFORM
MODERN
AUTHORING
TOOLS
UNIFY OUR
DIGITAL CMS
EASILY SYNDICATE
CONTENT ACROSS ALL
PLATFORMS
DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS
CONTENT, DESIGN AND
PRODUCTION
Let’s get to the juice
LEARNING 1: Change management
Learning 2: Be realistic around timelines
LEARNING 3: Don’t like for like
2012
2012
LEARNING 3: Don’t like for like
2015
LEARNING 4: Release management
LEARNING 5a: Project thinking
LEARNING 5b: Negotiating
LEARNING 5c: Product thinking
What next?
Digital at the centre of the newsroom
Remove the silos
Find
alternative
channels
Hold the vision
for change
Be realistic around
timelines
Collaborate across
the business
Takeaways
Think product, not
project(s)
Thanks for listening…
Your name
Your organisation
Follow me @your twitter
Your pic
Q&A
Thanks for listening…
Your name
Your organisation
Follow me @your twitter
Your pic
Thanks for listening…
Paul Flewelling
FAIRFAX MEDIA

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