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5 skills media companies should help employees hone
SUMMARY: To groom employees for future management roles, training should focus on developing media technology and management skills as well as personality.
Publishers have plenty of challenges, but attracting amazing people isn’t one of them. Media houses are often magnets for the talented, the creative, the intellectual, the inspired, and the inspiring. The catch is that, once we’ve got hold of them, we’re not ...
4 steps to success in sourcing new revenues for news media companies
SUMMARY: News media companies shouldn’t jump straight into creating their next best, most profitable new product. Instead, they must professionalise their company, optimise products ...
7 pitfalls of digital transformation
SUMMARY: Digital is all well and good. But news media organisations must steer clear of known risks — from fixating on one problem to ...
The story matrix – the myth of “all is breaking news”
"Planning is the natural enemy of a journalist" is what you hear in many newsrooms. But if you screen a newspaper you will ...
Organisational types of newsrooms in a digital/print environment
Digital/Print newsroom can be categoried in three main types: Newsroom 1.0 to 3.0. Even if the setup can look the quite same when ...