Nieman Journalism Lab: Michael Skoler on newsroom culture
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"If journalists don't lead the revolution, the beancounters will."
Category Archives: management
Northwestern University: Readership Institute: How to save young employees from the buzz saw of newspaper culture
Vickey Williams: "My work ... shows that young journalists intend to leave because the pace of change is too slow.... They are turned off by the tendency of veteran journalists to argue down new ideas, cling to old ways, and avoid risks."
Depth Reporting: Just how stupid, shortsighted and out-of-touch are newspaper executives?
"[P]owerful economic forces, forces that are vastly more complicated than the simplistic drivel about newspaper curmudgeons and their resistance to change, are behind the news industry's malaise today."
Recovering Journalist: Thinking Strategically
Mark Potts: "[T]here's now a lot more to being a journalist than ink-stained wretchery. ... Everybody, at all levels, needs to be thinking strategically and fully understanding where things are headed."
Completetosh.com: Marking up the NUJ’s new media verdict
Neil McIntosh: The report of the NUJ multimedia commission "shows a level of understanding completely absent from much of what the union has had to say about the web to date, and is a signficant step forward."
Computer World: IT is a key barrier to corporate Web 2.0 adoption, users say
"Office 2.0 attendees say IT workers reluctant to change traditional processes" So very, very true.