The current situation in media stimulates publishers to use their resources effectively, the technology provides an instrument for that.
Using NewsMAN, in the majority of cases a publisher may abandon big offices with a work space for each employee, since many of them may work perfectly wherever an internet connection is available. In a virtual newsroom, all users regardless their actual location can be united in one team with the companys entire content and other intellectual resources being available.
Also, NewsMAN helps to reduce costs both of traditional business processes of a publishing company and of processes connected to new media channels. Firstly, there is no need to create a full-fledged department to produce publications for another popular gadget or channel, all the work is naturally distributed between currently existing units.
Secondly, all the processes are depicted as a flow chart in the system administration module. Using a built-in graphic editor a system administrator can change a process or create a new one just in several clicks.
In order to manage the newsroom effectively, an editor needs to know the real workload of each of her employees: which tasks are assigned to whom, which content is created by whom, which events will happen and need to be attended etc., etc. A list of work load in NewsMAN shows the role of employees in a particular department or function of all team members working on a particular story in real time. Also, directly in this list an editor can assign a task to an employee, or assign her to an event this is a powerful tool for planning the work of particular journalists or entire departments. This tool is especially useful for virtual newsrooms, where employees physically are located in different places.
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