New tools for journalists

The key mobile tools for journalists are essentially these: mobile phones, laptop computers and digital cameras. While both laptops and digital cameras continue to become more refined and offer more features, etc., at the moment, the mobile tool that is developing the faste ...>

8th International Newsroom Summit Day 2

Session IV – The changing newsroom: multiplatform workflow and integration “Everything we do is based on the story. The story is king,” said Terry Mitchinson, editor of the Welwyn and Hatfield Times, in explaining how his newspaper integrated its newsroom and ha ...>

8th International Newsroom Summit Day 1

The conference examined how newsrooms can adapt to new needs during financially turbulent times. Industry leaders discuss how branding, reorganisation, staff development and new technologies can help to improve the results. Chairpersons Reeta Meriläinen, editor in chief ...>

5 wild ideas for better newsroom management

Juan Antonio Giner, editor of Innovations in Newspapers, offers some additional suggestions for editorial reorganisation in 2009: Idea 1: Organize the newsroom around audiences, instead of ...>

Interview with Urs Gossweiler

Not yet available in English. Please check again soon. Das kleine Schweizer Traditionsmedienhaus Gossweiler Media AG setzt ausschließlich auf lokale Inhalte und hat damit Erfolg. Sein Konzept der multimedialen Mikrozeitung will der Verleger der Jungfrau Zeitung, Ur ...>

Vitaly Golubev, OGO, assesses the first year after newsroom reorganization

Available in Russian only. IFRA-ГИПП: Можно ли уже говорить о каких-то первых практических результатах интеграции? Что стало главным разочарованием, а что - приятной ...>

Maxim Filomonov, RIA Novosty, presents the brand-new integrated newsroom

Available in Russian only. IFRA-ГИПП: В двух словах: ради чего РИА «Новости» предприняли столь масштабную реорганизацию? Максим Филимонов: С точки зрения ...>

Q&A with Jonathan Halls in Moscow

Available only in Russian «Конвергенция: управление переходом к мультимедийности» - на этом семинаре, организованном ГИПП, РИА «Новости» и Ifra, проблема рассматривалась в диапазоне от бизнес-стратегий до управления персоналом до практических занятий по произво ...>

Interview with Svetlana Omelchuk of OGO Publishers

In May 2007 Ukraine’s Rivnenska Gazeta integrated their newsroom with their sister Rivne 1 TV station, creating a multi-platform operation to more effectively connect with its community a ...>

Interview with Vitaliy Golubev

Vitaliy Golubev is editor in chief of OGO Publishers and deputy director of Rivne 1 broadcasting station. He has supervised the integration of the print and TV newsrooms. newspaper techniques: What were the main difficulties you encountered creating an inte ...>

Column by Alexander Chekshin, KP Web projects director

KP goes Multimedia. Available only in Russian Чтобы понимать, почему мультимедийность из модного термина превратилась для нас в систему мировоззрения и особого отношения к предлагае ...>

Entrevista a Arsenio Escolar, director editorial de 20 Minutos

Available only in Spanish tdp: ¿Cuántos periodistas trabajan en las redacciones de 20 Minutos y cómo se ha llevado a cabo el proceso de integración de las redacciones o ...>

Interview with Louise Mason

newspaper techniques: You’re responsible for the training part at The Daily Telegraph, and training is a very important module of the whole reorganisation process. Could you explain how the training was handled during this period of change at The Daily Telegra ...>

Interview with Jennifer Carroll of Gannett

newspaper techniques: This is really an enormous undertaking that Gannett is doing right now. Jennifer Carroll: Yes, actually, I think like most media companies we’ve b ...>

Interview with Norbert Tiemann & Hilmar Riemenschneider

In 2006, the Westfälische Nachrichten, a regional newspaper based in Münster, Germany, with a daily circulation of 220,000, adopted the Ifra Newsplex convergence concept, NewsDesk, for its pri ...>

Interview with Ed Roussel, digital editor of The Daily Telegraph

nt: How closely linked is the digital operation of Daily Telegraph with the print operation? You’re all in the same room now, right? E. Roussel: We’re very closely linked ...>

Interview with Will Lewis, editor of The Daily Telegraph

newspaper techniques: Could you explain a little bit about how the Daily Telegraph has changed through the reorganisation that has been going on during the past year? Will ...>

DTI's Geoff Walker on the Telegraph installation

newspaper techniques: Is The Daily Telegraph still the largest circulation newspaper in the world using DTI's editorial system? How many seats are involved? Geoff Walker:>

Interview with Murdoch MacLennan

As CEO of the U.K.’s Telegraph Media Group, Murdoch MacLennan has led the organisation through an incredible period of change and reorganisation, including the Telegraph’s recent move from Canary Wharf to new headquarters in central London. In this exclusive interview, M ...>

Interview with Peter Judd

Peter Judd has been editor of the Geelong Advertiser since 1998. Before that, he edited another daily, the Ballarat Courier, and a pair of community-focused weekly papers, the Geelong News and the Geelong Echo. In his current position, Judd manages more than 50 f ...>

Interview with Dan Cox

newspaper techniques: In 2001, the Lawrence, Kansas-based World Company’s Lawrence Journal-World, Channel 6 News, and World Online moved to a converged newsroom. What did convergence mean for what you do at World Online? Dan Cox: It affects ...>

At Edipresse, details are important

The building housing the 24 Heures and Le Matin newsrooms in Lausanne, Switzerland, is probably the most visited destination these days when people are looking for innovative newsroom architecture. Here are a few pictures to give you a taste of this futuristic, inspiring environm ...>