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Jim Roberts, Editor of Digital News at New York Times, USA, spoke about innovations in his newsroom at the second session of the 15th World Editors Forum, part of the 61st World Newspaper Congress.

The integration of print and the New York Times' website has gone far. According to Mr Roberts it's "much more integrated than less at New York Times." Mr Roberts himself came from a background as a journalist at the printed paper and moved onto the website, a situation not uncommon at NY Times.

At an early stage the website was merely a new platform, a way to reach more readers. From about 2003 and on the potential of an integrated newsdesk was truly realised. In the words of Mr Roberts; "A story can be so much richer with multimedia." The adding of blogs, video, audio and illustrated graphics gives news a whole other dimension. Continuous news is another major positive part of the website. The possibility to update, especially foreign news, from minute to minute is changing the entire way news works and how it reaches its readers. What must be emphasized though is that the introduction and growth of website news must not cause a decline of quality when it comes to the presentation of the news story; "Fast is good, but fast with quality is better". At the New York Times, this has been the policy, but recruiting qualified staff is quite difficult. Current journalists have had to learn to also manage the web.

Finding and hiring web journalists in a competetive market is one of the challenges ahead. Discovering and learning what actually works, video, audio etc., is another challenge. Finding what works leads the relationship with readers and users. One thing that has been difficult, according to Roberts, is creating and being the center of a social network. But this will allow the paper to receive immediate feedback from readers who can comment on the good and bad of the Times' coverage. Through this, the paper would be able to "re-direct alot of energy back to the printed paper", said Roberts.

Zero Hora, flagship title of the RBS media group in Brazil, has had an integrated newsroom since last September, which was officially inaugurated in December 2007. In Part 1, Zero Hora’s editors, Marcelo Rech and Marta Gleich, and RBS’ CEO Nelson Sirotsky, describe how integration has changed their and their journalists’ jobs, both in theory and practice.

In 2006, when the Manchester Evening News decided to make the paper free in central Manchester, while keeping paid-for distribution in the city’s outskirts, few fellow publishers understood such a decision. Yet at the heart of this commercial move lays a greater will to adapt to the decline of print ad revenues by becoming a converged media group, and the Evening News now boasts the UK’s most integrated regional newsroom.

Richard Warren, a technical manager with Userite Website comments on journalism.co.uk’s accessibility 2.0 project which reviewed eight newspapers for their accessibility, especially to the disabled.

Le Monde’s print and online teams are non-integrated, and it’s only this year that the paper began mapping out a concrete plan to further collaboration – not integration. Yet this relative ‘belatedness’ doesn’t prevent Le Monde and LeMonde.fr from being considered by many as the French quality newspaper of record, and being second among national news sites for time spent and first for number of unique visitors. Why isn't Le Monde integrated? How does it keep both operations running smoothly? The Weblog interviewed Alexis Delcambre, editor of LeMonde.fr, and Philippe Le Coeur, who coordinates the relationship between print and online.

Launched two weeks ago, LePost.fr is not your typical online-only news site. With a resolutely ‘new media’ approach to news, the website fearlessly tackles new trends in news consumption, and caters to a younger public generally perceived as having deserted the arena. Its editorial content and processes have been adapted to this aim, which can also be seen as a traditional media publisher’s attempt to experiment with the future of online news.

The Mail&Guardian (M&G) Online launched Thought Leader, an opinion aggregator that gathers the voices of South Africa’s columnists, bloggers and opinion makers in general. An interesting idea, inspired by the Guardian’s Comment is Free feature, which restores and reinvents newspapers’ civic mission as… thought leaders.

Who said that the Internet would kill off print? In an atypical reversal of trends, The Chicago Tribune just launched two new weekly print editions, which were spawned by its hyper-local citizen journalism website, triblocal.com.

During the week of June 25-June 29, nytimes.com featured digital news editor Jim Roberts in the weekly Q&A column, “Talk to the Newsroom.”  Answering user-submitted questions, Roberts discussed issues concerning the “task at hand” for The New York Times, celebrity news, website usability, breaking versus traditional news, user-submitted content, and the future of newspapers.

According to Dennis Anderson, managing editor of the Journal-World, the development of the Lawrence, Kansas-based paper’s 24-hour newsroom has required changes in management, technology and, perhaps most importantly, identity.  These adjustments, in return, have cultivated a readership base that is more impatient for its news.

How can a multimedia and online-focused publication be so successful in South Africa, a market in which Internet and broadband access are still relatively limited and telecommunications’ costs are excruciating? Matthew Buckland, publisher of Mail & Guardian (M&G) Online, explains how his newspaper used these obstacles to its own advantage.

As many newspapers struggle with declining print revenues, they try to boost their online editions. It just seems the Schibsted-owned Norwegian daily Verdens Gang (VG) – Norway’s best-selling tabloid – has found a 'magic' recipe: here’s how VG online is crushing its competition.

The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism.

Citizen journalism media and local news websites offering user-generated content influence their communities and are here to stay, according to a report released by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. Traditional Media companies are coming up against these citizen journalism sites so it’s imperative to understand how to set them up, the secrets to success and how they can work hand in hand with newspapers.

One of this year’s major trends in newsrooms was the generalized evolution of the newsroom itself, into what was dubbed ‘integrated newsrooms’. Gannett came up with its own innovative version though, the Local Information Center (IC). The Editors Weblog interviewed one of the main engines of this venture, Jennifer Carroll, Vice President of New Media Content at Gannett Corporation.

 Every web-based news source must take great care in providing an efficient layout. For two reasons. Studies have shown that, in a general manner, the print-format of newspapers is still more practical than web versions for cursive visual scans and information retention. The second reason is common sense: since traditional newspapers’ readership is migrating to online, it’s even more essential for them to produce a quality online format. So how do you do it? 

Despite their short existence, podcasts are one of the fastest growing new media of Web 2.0. Having only emerged in mid-2004, by the end of 2005 'podcast' was the New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. Newspapers looking to innovate have rapidly adopted podcasts as part of their everyday news production, some providing morning news summaries to which readers who may not have the time to read during their commute can listen. The Editors Weblog spoke with three editors in charge of their respective paper's daily podcasting to find out the steps they're taking in integrating podcasting into their newsrooms.

Last month in Moscow, the Russian Guild of Press Publishers held the First Russian Publishers Conference.  During the Press Freedom Seminar, President of the World Editors Forum and Saturday Editor of The Times (London), George Brock, gave a talk discussing the freedom of the press in Russia, whose text is posted below. 

The New York Times' paid wall experiment raised a lot of fuss in the online media world back in September and still gets on the nerves of the blogosphere.  But is it really all that hard to find those hidden articles?  What about other paid subscription sites?  Do paid walls work?