The Telegraph’s new newsroom
The Press Gazette has a look at what the Telegraph plans with its new newsroom, which is described thus:
The “revolutionary” system is based around a hub layout, with a round table at the centre — where the editor and 11 section heads will sit. The 11 sections — sport, business, pictures, home news etc — will then fan out from the central hub. Each team will be responsible for production not just of the broadsheet news pages, but of digital products too, containing text, audio and video. The job title ‘sub-editor’ will disappear; instead ‘production journalists’ will work on various platforms. The company also expects to recruit some specialist video journalists.
A four-month pilot system, testing the new process at the Victoria office, has 39 people working on it using a smaller-scale version of the hub, producing dummies of the broadsheet newspaper as well as various other digital products. These include “click and carry” pages — fully interactive pdf files that contain video and audio elements when viewed online, but which can also be printed out on A3 or A4 pages to be read as a traditional print product.
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