Ways in which technology is changing the news process

Posted by John Burke on October 14, 2005 at 4:29 PM

Washington Post Database Editor, Derek Willis has written a series of articles suggesting ways in which technology can be used for the betterment of newspaper journalism, found through Cyberjournalist. Here are some of his main ideas that can be easily implemented in the newsroom through the use of technology, especially the Internet:

- Information in newsrooms needs to be more manageable and searchable
- journalists should share their information with other journalists and databases should be formed that include every staff members contacts and articles

"The modern newspaper is the anti-Google - it keeps its best information within its own walls, and makes it hard even for those few who work there to get to it."

- archives need to be annotated for easy research
- newspapers need to be more reactive to their audience and what others are saying and doing.
Using email, personal publishing to connect with readers and other journalists; More than ever, media outlets are put in the position of being reactive to what others are saying and doing. We’re not the sole owners of the news anymore..

Source: Cyberjournalist

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