How Digital First Media hopes to transform workflow, culture of ‘newspaper facto

[fossywriter8]

Live tweet/Facebook/BLOG each new initiative meeting.
When the bigwigs complain tell them, hey, we're just letting readers/digital information partners/whoever know all the good ideas you're asking us to do for them.

 

[boundforboston]

Here's a Digital First Media newspaper, the York Daily Record, on how newsrooms should operate: http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/who_cares_if_its_true.php?page=all.

Record managing editor Randy Parker wants journalists to see their work in thirds: aggregation of competitors' work, curation of users' content, and original reporting. When applicants say their passion is to write stories, "I say, 'We don't have that job available,'" Parker says. "We try to get away from confining words like 'reporter' or 'editor.' "

Essentially, a reporter's original reporting is worth as much as what the community produces and as much as what other people are doing. Thoughts?

 

[MisterCreosote]

No. Essentially, it's "do the same thing we always did, except with fewer people, less quality and lower reader expectations, and call it some fancy buzzword."

I'll submit the following, and say if you haven't asked these questions BEFORE becoming a journalist, then you're wasting everyone's time, including your own:

In the newsrooms of this moment, with growing agreement that audiences want information that is true, journalists are coming together around the same basic questions: When is information sufficiently baked to be served up as accurate? Who decides? Should there be rules, or just ideals? Is it enough merely to try to be right eventually?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

No. Essentially, it's "do the same thing we always did, except with fewer people, less quality and lower reader expectations, and call it some fancy buzzword."

Exactly.

 

[wicked]

Re: How Digital First Media hopes to transform workflow, culture of 'newspaper facto

"Is it merely enough to try to be right eventually?" How about being right the first damn time.

This business is killing itself.

 

[playthrough]

Here's a Digital First Media newspaper, the York Daily Record, on how newsrooms should operate: http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/who_cares_if_its_true.php?page=all.

Record managing editor Randy Parker wants journalists to see their work in thirds: aggregation of competitors' work, curation of users' content, and original reporting. When applicants say their passion is to write stories, "I say, 'We don't have that job available,'" Parker says. "We try to get away from confining words like 'reporter' or 'editor.' "

Essentially, a reporter's original reporting is worth as much as what the community produces and as much as what other people are doing. Thoughts?

Such bullshirt.

Aggregation of competitors' work: What if the competition sucks? What if you've got them beaten like a drum on a story?

Curation of users' content: Journalists are trained to know what to do. Would be so refreshing to be trusted and not have to give a flying fork what a few users think. (And it's always a few, but higher-ups think the entire world is talking to us.) Does a baseball manager poll Row E before making a pitching change?

Original reporting: Well, thanks.

 

[BYH]

Digital First Media is the same pile of shirt, just moved into a different corner and renamed.

 

[wicked]

Digital First Media is the same pile of shirt, just moved into a different corner and renamed.

Yup.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kennedy/the-view-from-new-haven-w_b_5078855.html

All is not good aboard the SS Paton.

 

[boundforboston]

Buttry got a job teaching at LSU. I'll hang up and listen.

http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/my-next-adventure-teaching-at-lsu/

 

[wicked]

So a self-professed savior who failed to save the business in multiple job opportunities is now teaching the next generation of journalists how to fail miserably?

 

[LongTimeListener]

It would be a lot more worrisome at a real college.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Smoove, Digital First.

I'm told that Digital First Media laid off about 45 technology division staffers on Tuesday. After the cuts were made, DFM chief technology officer Bob Mason emailed an updated organization chart and other information to the remaining employees – including names of employees cut, staffers to keep and those being considered for dismissal. (I'm told that about 15 employees received Mason's email.)

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/06/27/digital-first-media-memo-includes-names-staffers-being-considered-for-dismissal/