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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 innovate even as ... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 28, 2008 at 1:42pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 28.

"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 pro... Continue

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

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 students are ge... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 15, 2008 at 11:56pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.

How can we harness the power of crowds?

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... Continue

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

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... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 16, 2008 at 12:42am. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.

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... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 28, 2008 at 1:38pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 28.

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." On the board Old World: Print tomorrow or Print wheneve... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 16, 2008 at 12:00am. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.

How do we restructure newsroom management?

Courtesy Greg Linch's blog: Chris Carroll, student communications, Vanderbilt University Discussing Inside Vandy They don't have a journalism program, so they didn't have to deal with traditional... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 16, 2008 at 12:13am. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.

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 o... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 16, 2008 at 12:41am. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.

Notes and Articles

Welcome to Notes. The first group of these notes are primarily from the sessions held on Day 2 of the Next Newsroom Conference on April 3 and 4, 2008.

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 15, 2008 at 10:49pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.

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.   2. Depending on the goal, there ar... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 15, 2008 at 11:50pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.

What are the business models?

These are Bill Densmore's notes on a session at the Duke Next Newsroom seminar in Durham, N.C., on Friday, April 4, 2008. In attendance: red shirt: Eric Larson, president, StellarMediaonline.com er... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien May 5, 2008 at 9:47pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien May 6.

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 goin... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien May 1, 2008 at 10:27am. Last updated by Chris O'Brien May 1.

what role should student media play as students become media creators themselves

Issues involved in having users post content has issues in terms of content Doug Thompson, publisher of Capitol Hill Blue; mentioned Bluffton Gazette (any reader of the Gazette can be a producer o... Continue

Created by Chris O'Brien Apr 15, 2008 at 11:44pm. Last updated by Chris O'Brien Apr 16.