Distributive Newsrooms?
Look, I'm an old guy who started his career in newsrooms filled with cigarette smoke, cursing, and sex jokes. None of that was good, and we are a better industry that it is gone.
Nonetheless, reading the comments above from digital journalism consultant Tom Trewinnard in an Niemanlab column....what can I say?
I've never been a big fan of consultants, usually people, mostly men, who are at least a few hundred miles from their home base and equidistant from their last actual job.
Now you have to learn the "newsroom culture".
I wonder who writes the operations manual explaining all that to a new graduate?
"Implemented poorly, digital newsrooms can indeed feel isolating and remote, without the satisfying and energizing bustle of the news desk, lacking the laughter and emotion that often accompanies our work as journalists.
But implemented well, as a distributed team instead of as a collection of “remote” workers, digital newsrooms can be engaging and vibrant spaces that develop their own cultures, enable new ways of working, and support productive collaboration and high-impact journalism."
Look, I'm an old guy who started his career in newsrooms filled with cigarette smoke, cursing, and sex jokes. None of that was good, and we are a better industry that it is gone.
Nonetheless, reading the comments above from digital journalism consultant Tom Trewinnard in an Niemanlab column....what can I say?
Can't you just wait to visit those newsrooms??
"engaging and vibrant spaces that develop their own cultures"--?Bad enough to be joining a new news operation after learning how to be a fair but firm journalist.
Now you have to learn the "newsroom culture".
I wonder who writes the operations manual explaining all that to a new graduate?
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