Bruno Giussani writes:
According to a story by Jeff Howe in Wired and several blog posts, after running a series of pilot projects over the past several months Gannett - the publisher of USA Today (an innovative newspaper that journalists dismissed when it launched 25 years ago) and of some 90 other American daily newspapers - has decided to implement by May a radical reorganization of all its newsrooms, renaming them "information centers" and structuring them into seven job areas:
- Digital: charged with selecting the best platform for delivering a given news
- Public service: which will try to involve readers in helping out with public-interest investigations
- Community conversation: expanding the concept of the editorial page, mixing commentary, editorial and blogs, and encouraging readers participation
- Local: expanding local coverage and re-establishing sports, business and feature reporting into hyper-local areas
- Custom content: connecting with identified target audiences and looking for efficiencies in repurposing content across different platforms
- Data: managing the acquisition of information (including that readers-generated)
- Multimedia: leading all visual presentations across every platform. ...
And much more. Link: LunchoverIP. --Dennis
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