Another important task when transforming a traditional newsroom is the integration of a companys entire intellectual resources regardless of their physical location. Collaboration, collective work, specific task teams, etc. are absolutely necessary to produce high quality and creative content
Resource integration doesn't only mean shared archives with searchable content and filters. It rather means a real-time reflexion of a newsroom life: who is working on a certain story, who is writing which text, who is to attend a press-conference. Such an environment provokes co-operation itself, it is so natural to share a link to a website that might be useful to a colleague if you know the story she is working on. There's nothing easier then to ask another colleague to ask 'your' particular question if you know the press-conference she is going to.
On the other hand, you may wish to set up a sports desk of people from your regional newsrooms in the main football cities of the country, and it will be the most expert in football sports desk you could ever afford. It is not a problem any more to gather a team to produce a special edition for the UEFA Euro 2012, you already have this team, and this time it really doesn't matter where physically they are.
In such an environment publications planning and planning of work load is essential, and built-in tools of NewMAN allow to perform these actions easy and efficiently.
Jeff Jarvis,
author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009),
American journalist, professor,
and expert in new media
Online, the story, the reporting, the knowledge are never done and never perfect. That doesnt mean that we revel in imperfection or ... that we have no standards. It just means that we do journalism differently... We have our standards, too, and they include collaboration, transparency, letting readers into the process, and trying to say what we dont know when we publish as caveats rather than afterward as corrections.
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