Archive | April, 2010

Moving your newsroom workflow to the Web

Posted by Brian Manzullo at April 26, 2010

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This is a topic I might elaborate further on in the coming weeks. I was thinking the other day about how a newsroom should operate its daily workflow, particularly a college newsroom (since, for the time being, I'm editor of one), and how many use the Web for it. When I first began working at CM Life, we operated on NewsEdit Pro and Quark Xpress. Now it's InCopy and InDesign for their flexibility and the ability to edit copy while designers are at work. The productivity is no doubt efficient. The problem is the workflow is based around the print operation in a newsroom that's supposed to think Web-first.

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Watching from afar what transpires at BCNI

Posted by Brian Manzullo at April 23, 2010

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I had this coming weekend circled on my calendar for a couple months — a chance to meet in person some of the most brilliant minds on the future of journalism at BarCamp NewsInnovation in Philadelphia. BCNI is a conference that uses an open-grid format for sessions, allowing virtually anybody who attends to organize an [...]

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