A look at online news operations
The American Journalism Review has an in-depth look at four online news operations, and how they differ from the traditional newspaper process — and how the two are (or aren’t) working together. The story starts with a description of how a Houston Chronicle online editor has posted several stories and is working on getting photos of a crime victim, while “around her, in a newsroom as quiet as a library, print colleagues shuffle in sipping from their Starbucks cups and grunting their good mornings. It is a scene repeated more and more often as mainstream newsrooms adjust to becoming two worlds in one.”
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(On Oct 30th, 2006 at 5:25 am)
[…] A feature by Carl Sessions Stepp, senior editor of the American Journalism review, inspired some of the posts by well-known bloggers. In "Center Stage", Stepp explores the online news desks — sometimes these are separate from continuous news desks, sometime not — of four major U.S. papers. The piece opens with a morning scene from the Houston Chronicle, which Globe and Mail technology columnist and four-pronged blogger Mathew Ingram quotes in his post, which I'll quote in full since it summarizes the piece nicely: The American Journalism Review has an in-depth look at four online news operations, and how they differ from the traditional newspaper process — and how the two are (or aren’t) working together. The story starts with a description of how a Houston Chronicle online editor has posted several stories and is working on getting photos of a crime victim, while “around her, in a newsroom as quiet as a library, print colleagues shuffle in sipping from their Starbucks cups and grunting their good mornings. It is a scene repeated more and more often as mainstream newsrooms adjust to becoming two worlds in one.” […]