3 Working in a digital age newsroom

News is a cultural discipline. Choosing it an intellectual skill; collecting it a profession

Anthony Smith

The Shadow in the Cave, 1974

 

THE NEWSROOM

Newsrooms are complex places, places of creative conflict, of fast decision-making; where egotistical individuality and competition sit side by side with teamwork and high speed production values. They are also becoming increasingly complex technologically.

Newspaper newsroom organization

Newsrooms tend to be personal – and management of them tends to be personal. But they need to be managed, and reporters need to be able to work in them freely and creatively. Managers need to be able to control the creative process without squashing it. Management control ...

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