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How can we harness the power of crowds?

Created by Chris O'Brien May 5, 2008 at 9:49pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien May 6.

What are the business models?

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What are the physical spaces needed?

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

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 28, 2008 at 1:50pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 28.

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

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How can we use social media in the newsroom?

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

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New business models for the Next Newsroom

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How do we restructure newsroom management?

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How do we change from the "old" to the "new"?

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From left, Rusty Coats of Media General Corp.; Sharon Behl Brooks of Hastings College; Christian Oliver, of INNOVATION Media Consulting Group; and Robertson Barrett, of LATimes.com, at the Duke Univ. Next Newsroom summit, in Durham, N.C., on April 3, 2008.

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IFRA Newsplex Director Randy Covington at the Duke Univ. Next Newsroom summit, in Durham, N.C., on April 3, 2008.

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Saf Fahim of Archronica Architects at at the Duke Univ. Next Newsroom summit, in Durham, N.C., on April 3, 2008.

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Grim scenes from the Mercury News

(photo by Martin Gee) After watching the newsroom at the San Jose Mercury News dwindle from 420 to 170 people through six rounds of layoffs and buyouts since 2001, I have plenty to say about the state of newspapers and what's gone wrong. But mostly these da… Continue

Posted by Chris O'Brien on May 6th, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Pixar director on using space to drive innovation

If you've seen Ratatouille or The Incredibles, then you've seen Brad Bird's work at Pixar. Tech blog GigaOm highlighted an interview that Bird did with McKinsey consultants on how Pixar maintains an innovative culture. There's a lot of valuable lessons and ideas pulled together here. But of particular note are Bird's comments on Pixar's space:

"If you walk around dow…

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There are a lot of great sites being thrown around at the Newstools conference. I'll be posting as many as I can catch to the NextNewsroom Del.icio.us stream. The feed is below the members box on the right of this page.

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Social Networks & Social Research

How are social networks and social network sites being used by researchers? Guest lecture in Hanson’s COM529 class. [Two addenda!] Not in the slides — but don’t forget email lists and blog posts/comments! Screen capture of Twhirl. Links from the presentation (and a couple that I may have forgotten!) CrowdStatus Gridjit GroupTweet LinkedIn Blog Online Journalism Blog PicoBuzz PollDaddy Quotably.com Snitter Summize.com/about TweetBurner TweetClouds TweetScan Twhirl Twitter.Alltop.com Twi

Next Newsroom: Wrap-up

I spent Thursday and Friday at the NextNewsroom Conference at Duke University. Thanks to Chris O’Brien for coordinating a great discussion and helping college students attend. My interest in the conference stemmed from a previous interest in exploring the idea of a “virtual newsroom.” I wrote a little about this before. Due to some initial crazyness at the Gainesville airport, I was late to the show, so here are some links documenting what I missed: Greg Linch posted the highlights of Chris

Newsplex Head: Why Aren’t USA Newpapers Investing in Future?

Bill Densmore, who attended the Next Newsroom conference at Duke Unversity, provides this introduction to a video he shot at Duke: Randy Covington spent a career in print reportering and TV news management. Now he heads the IFRA Newsplex, a state-of-the-art training facility at the University of South Carolina. Covington says the users of the facility are mostly not U.S. news organizations. In this five-minute video interview with Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project, he explains why. H

Steps to Getting to the Right Social Media Technologies

I was in a session at the Next Newsroom at Duke led by Kara Andrade about using social media technologies. Here is a four-step way to thinking about the way to determine what Social Media technology to use for a newsroom project. Often people pick the technology first. Andrade says that’s a bit backward. Here are the four questions in this order to ask: People —Who is the audience we want to reach in Northfield? How old, education etc? What tools do they have access to? Email, highspeed Broad

Nextnewsroom: college media innovation

Facilitated by Kathleen Sullivan How do we build in opportunities for trying new things? How do student journalists balance work and classes? How do we manage more (with only so much staff)? Where can you scale back, where can you do more? Different deadline realities, diff sources for content, what can be delegated and what can’t? Teamwork for stories instead of individual ownership? The story doesn’t end when it goes to print. You can have all sorts of discussions online. Build in-hous

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Do You Really Need a Brick and Mortar Newsroom?

I'd like to share a few thoughts informed by my own experience as a Chronicle editor in the early 1990s, as well as my current work in the related, albeit different, world of public relations. Whi... Continue

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Added by Jason Greenwald Feb 24

Should a newsroom integrate its online operation into the main newsroom, or keep it separate?

Here at The Seattle Times, the print newsroom supplies content for both the print and online editions. The editor and senior producers of our website, seattletimes.com, sit in on all the story plan... Continue

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Added by Sanjay Bhatt Feb 22

Should a newsroom integrate its online operation into the main newsroom, or keep it separate?

I like Sanjay's suggestions and the emphasis on the type of content that is better suited to print and online delivery--breaking news and shorter stuff online, longer pieces for print. Also seems l... Continue

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Added by Elizabeth Morgan Feb 25

Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different .

It used to be that the leading news analysts in the country were the top traditional media outlets, that is no longer the case because anyone can publish content and analyze an industry with the we... Continue

Added by John Cass Feb 20