Want to create a more digital newsroom? Find your inner startup
On a gray day in the fall of 2013, a dozen department heads of the Dutch media company NRC huddled together in a room in Amsterdam. (Full disclosure: I was one of them.) Paintings of bygone editors of the esteemed daily NRC Handelsblad decorated the walls. That day, we made the decision to launch a startup within the newsroom in order to help ease the transition to a digital-focused company.
Mobile push notifications are becoming an increasingly important way for news organizations to reach users. But do you really want them? Tell us!
It was back in June that we learned “content blockers” — a.k.a. ad blockers —would be coming to the next OS updates for iPhones and iPads.
It’s that time of year: Journalism students are returning to campus, charting their courses for the next semester, and professors are fine-tuning their syllabi. Turmoil in the news business means that many professors are also reckoning with how to adapt their teaching approaches in an era of data visualization, apps, and distributed content.
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