UK: Financial Times to introduce multimedia newsroom
The Financial Times will integrate its print and online newsrooms on October 1st, says editor Lionel Barber. Along with the total consolidation of print and online news desks, all journalists will be required to work 3 early morning shifts per month.
Hugh Carnegy, executive editor and night editor at the paper, oversaw the changes with a group of journalists. The integration also includes a complete transition to the Methode production system, with which print and online articles are edited with the same interface.
Stephen Brooks of the Guardian reports that Barber deems the move essential to “meet the demands of the digital age.”
The transition was announced in July, along with the announcement that the integration would result in a 10% loss in editorial staff, a total of 50 jobs.
Barber believes that the move will steer the paper toward the multimedia ideal of around-the-clock news. "When we talk about the age of 24/7 news that's the way we are living now and we can do that because we have a worldwide newspaper,"he said.
The Financial Times is only one of the British papers revising the traditional newsroom. The Times has effectuated a similar merger with its print and online business sections, and the Daily Telegraph plans to have a completely multimedia newsroom by the end of October.
Source: The Guardian
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