Building the ideal newsroom for the next 50 years
David W. Freeman's Page
Profile Information
- Organization
- McCaskey Center for Student Involvement and Leadership
- Title
- Director of Student Publications
- Location
- Appalachian State University
- About Me
- I feel like a dinosaur tramping around trying to avoid the comet racing toward me. I have a BA in International Relations and a Masters in Mass Communication. I'm really searching for ways to help my students at Appalachian State University learn the skills they will need to succeed in this fast-changing world of information overload. My background is as a community journalist. I've worked at weekly and small daily publications, even a small business magazine. While I worry about the future of journalism and the newsroom of the future, I'm much more concerned with whether my students leave here with an education that has prepared them to understand this vastly complicated world we live in and that they will have to cover as journalists.
- Your Website
- http://www.theapp.appstate.edu
- Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different . (And if you do, please post a copy of your answer in the forums).
- I remember when Radio Shack came out with theTandy TRS-80 computer in the early 80s. I told my boss at the time the day would come when the newsroom of the future just might not be a newsroom because we would all have one of those contraptions, a camera, and a telephone, and our job would be to stay in the field writing stories. Well, it seems that day has arrived and we aren't any clearer about the newsroom of the future than we were then. I've always believed journalists are best doing their jobs when they are not in the newsroom. Perhaps the newsroom of the future needs to be command center, the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, whatever, where the big honcho sits at his computerized command post while the rest of us are where we need to be. It just seems to me that what I see happening is more of the same predicated on people being in one location. Maybe that had to be when we relied on typewriters and copyboys. With our computers and Internet, who needs a newsroom? Who needs paper? Who needs a boss? Lots of questions and few answers.
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I liked what you wrote on your profile about the newsroom of the future. If it's not too much trouble, post a copy of it in the forums so everyone can get a look...
And don't hesitate to chime in here!
Bill Neville