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

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Organization: The Next Newsroom Project

Title: Project Manager

Location: Oakland, CA

About Me: By day, I'm a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News.

Your Website: http://blogs.mercurynews.com/docudrama

Did you attend Duke?: Yes

If so, what year did you graduate?: 1991

Did you work at The Chronicle?: Yes

If yes, what work did you do there?: I started as a reporter my sophmore year, and also worked as a watchdog. Junior year I became news editor. And the following year, I worked a senior editor.

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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:32am — No Comments (Add)

Newsrooms are entering a hub-and-spoke future

Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com recently paid a vist to the BBC to check in on their efforts to build a new newsroom. Jarvis wrote up his visit for his weekly column in the London… Continue

Posted on June 18th, 2008 at 11:15pm — No Comments (Add)

A nice nod from Ning

I came across this a bit belatedly. But the folks at Ning, which operates the platform that runs this site, gave us a nice shout out last month. Thanks, guys!

Posted on June 17th, 2008 at 9:49pm — No Comments (Add)

For the past year, I've been fortunate to be part of a group of folks who were awarded grants from the Knight Foundation through a program known as News Challenge. My project involved researching and designing the ideal newsroom for the student newspaper at Duke University. We called it the Next Newsroom Project. One of the terrific things about the program was… Continue

Posted on June 13th, 2008 at 9:38pm — No Comments (Add)

Don't stop the presses: Students still read student newspapers!

Over at the Student Newspaper Survival Blog, Rachele Kanigel points to a new study showing that on college campuses, students still read the college paper. In print. Kanigel writes:

"While professional newspapers are grappling with falling readership, particularly among Facebook-crazed college students, student newspapers are still widely read by their target audience. That's the word from Alloy Media + Marketing, which just annou…

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Posted on June 5th, 2008 at 5:45pm — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 12:17pm on June 24th, 2008, vineet gupta said…: Thanks for the note Chris! Daylife is doing very well. Check out a piece in businessweek that we got last week - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_26/b4090073501596.htm?chan=search

At 5:11am on June 12th, 2008, Albert said…: Chris, mentioned you on another blog and will likely mention the Next Gen project at a panel on future of news media today in St. Paul, MN http://tinyurl.com/3uxxzy

At 8:47pm on May 8th, 2008, Albert said…: Chris, I can't find your post http://www.providentpartners.net/blog/ to the comment about programmer journalist. Sorry, meanwhile I'm telling my journalism (t) friends about you. One guy Scott Gillespie, Editorial Page Editor of the Star Tribune. I'm sending him a link to this site.

He is a great guy, smart and, like you has a passion for his craft.

All the best, I'll be on the look out for the post

At 10:04am on April 26th, 2008, Albert said…: Chris, nice presentation at the NewComm Forum. I am sure more will be at the Society for New Communications Research www.sncr.org.

I blogged about your presentation and I have a commenter that asked a question about the jobs that will be part of the next newsroom. Whould you mind seeing if I answered it correctly and giving your more detailed and accurate answer? thanks

http://tinyurl.com/54ar3v

At 10:48am on March 12th, 2008, Chris O'Brien said…: Ping me when they're up...I'll also add you to my RSS...

At 1:26am on March 12th, 2008, Chris Amico said…: Thanks for the warm welcome.

I have some thoughts that have been brewing since the Berkeley panel. Must get those up on the blog soon.

At 6:47am on March 10th, 2008, Ruby Sinreich said…: Hi Chris. Were you at the Chapel Hill news during the BCC struggle at UNC? I met a lot of reporters in those days.

@ Rumbley: this is a perfect example of the kind tool you can jump right ot customizing instead of spending months and $thousands building from scratch. It's somewhat limited - but it's also FREE.

At 11:41am on March 6th, 2008, Chris O'Brien said…: Meaning this site? We use Ning (www.ning.com). Very easy, some limitations. But overall, I've been pleased. We originally built a site from scratch in drupal and it was nightmare for us: glitchy and hard to manage (though I'm an open source supporter in general).

Are you based in the Triangle?

At 10:32am on March 6th, 2008, rumbley said…: hey chris - curious, what kind of platform is NextNewsRoom built on? Very interesting.

At 2:19pm on March 3rd, 2008, Ed MacBean said…: Chris, can you send me the link for the agenda, speakers, and maybe even attendees for the NN conference? I am generating some interest among VMIX, and this could help seal the deal.