Opinion: Tips on how to reinvent the newsroom

Posted by Lauren Drablier on October 17, 2008 at 9:53 AM
In a recent article, Next Newsroom outlines a few things that can be done to reinvent the newsroom:

  • Start a wiki: create wiki entries for news and information, its "a great public service", but also gives newspapers "a chance to start soliciting content generated outside the newsroom."`
  • Aggregate
  • TwitterCamp: use Twitter in the newsroom, it helps to build a community and for reporting and updating breaking news events
  • Create a community hub: pull together all of the information from a community so its eaier for users to find.  To go even further - users can even create their own profiles in the community hubb
  • Hold a CopyCamp: a session where people get together and talk about topics in the newsroom - it's a way to re-think old ideas and come up with new ones
  • Use Talkshoe to create podcasts: Talkshoe records phone calls and turns them into MP3s so that newsrooms can turn them into podcasts.  It's a great way to publish interviews
  • Start a Beat Blog: turn sources into social networks
  • Embrace the social media: "reporters should be required to promote their stories after they appear online. Each reporter should be building their own network of followers and figuring out where their friends are getting their news."
Sources: Next Newsroom
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