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How the Deseret News supports a local newsroom with a national strategy

Nieman Lab :: The Salt Lake City company is breaking out of the newspaper mold by building online-only products that aim at an audience beyond Utah’s borders.

A report by Jonathan Stray, www.niemanlab.org

Chicago Tribune staff: We're frustrated and concerned about Journatic connection

Jim Romenesko :: Eighty-eight Chicago Tribune staffers have written to editor Gerould Kern about their “deep frustration and concern in the newsroom over the Tribune’s continued relationship with Journatic,” which they say “threatens to jeopardize our credibility.”

Read the staff letter here - by Jim Romensko, jimromenesko.com

How to bring 'agile' into the newsroom. Agile?

Journalism.co.uk :: Wander into a room of developers and you may hear the term "agile". But what is agile and why and how should journalists learn from developers and adopt some of the principles? This guide looks at how a number of newsrooms have taken aspects of agile on board, and how some journalists have actually been using some of the principles without knowing it.

Sarah Marshall on Twitter

A report by Sarah Marshall, www.journalism.co.uk

Knight-Mozilla Fellowship: Why develop in the newsroom?

Sinker Tumblr :: As the deadline to apply to become a 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellow approaches, there’s one question often comes up: Why would I want to work as a developer in the newsroom?

Written by Daniel Sinker, sinker.tumblr.com

HT: Hacker News 20

Update: Six News Developer Portraits on YouTube, uploaded by MozillaOpenNews

Jeremy Ashkenas, New York Times [01:06] talks about the quick turnarounds of deadline-driven development:

Tiff Fehr, New York Times [01:13] talks about geeking out on data:

Jeff Larson of ProPublica [01:10] talks about community and collaboration among developers in the newsroom:

Krista Kjellman Schmidt of ProPublica [00:54] talks about what's possible with web-native journalism:

Al Shaw of ProPublica [01:01] talks about the unpredictability of the newsroom:

David Nolen of the New York Times [00:56] talks about making things that "people actually use:

CNN switches up 12pm format: ‘Newsroom International’

Mediabistro :: During the work day (9am-4pmET), CNN has long relied on “CNN Newsroom” to bridge the gap between its morning shows and “The Situation Room.” Now the network seems to be switching it up a little bit, tweaking the long-running format.

Continue to read Alex Weprin, www.mediabistro.com

Gannett's Detroit Free Press to lay off reporters, cut newsroom

Motor City Muckraker :: Gannett's Detroit Free Press plans to sizably reduce its staff of reporters, and one of its top editors is leaving, Editor and Publisher Paul Anger told trepidation newspaper employees today. Anger said the cuts “won’t be tiny,” according to three reporters and an editor who were at the meeting.

Continue to read Steve Neavling, motorcitymuckraker.com

HT: Andrew Beaujon, Poynter

Les Echos: Inside an analytics-driven French newsroom #GEN2012

Journalism.co.uk :: The online editor-in-chief of French financial daily Les Echos has described how a steady stream of analytics data is helping journalists do their job – and even having an impact on what appears in the print edition. LesEchos.fr editor-in-chief François Bourboulon said the site had taken analytics seriously in the past three years.

A report by  Paul McNally, blogs.journalism.co.uk

'News DJ' Andy Carvin on Twitter as a newsroom

GigaOM :: Andy Carvin also talked with Mathew Ingram, GigaOM, about how he approached the reporting of real-time events on Twitter, and how he doesn’t really like having what he did called a “newswire” at the Mesh 2012 conference. Instead, he says he prefers to think of it as a crowdsourced newsroom — with him as the reporter, or the anchor (or “news DJ,” another term he likes to use) pulling in reports from different places, and then relying on his followers to act as editors and sources, fact-checking and verifying and also distributing the news that he was curating.

Interviewed by Mathew Ingram, gigaom.com at Mesh 2012

11th Newsroom Summit - Future of mobile news: Apps are overrated #nrsummit

At a panel discussion during the WAN-IFRA International Newsroom Summit in Hamburg yesterday editors from three leading news publications discussed the future of mobile news. Wolfgang Blau, editor of ZEIT Online expressed the fear that news apps don't deserve „the hype and herd mentality that they have received.” Spiegel's Matthias Müller von Blumencron clearly spoke out agains walled garden despite rumours claiming the publication might raise a paywall. Only Wall Street Journals Managing Editor Knut Engelmann defended charging for online news. The Wall Street Journal in Germany solely relies on online subscription revenue as they don't publish a print publication. Blau closed the panel with the remark: „I'm longing for more online only startups in Germany in order to force change upton the industry.“

Frederik Fischer for Liquid News Room, LNR

@cfstraumsheim : Leaving the newsroom to launch online startups

American Journalism Review :: When Jeanne Pinder received a $1,419 medical bill in March 2007, she raised a question she says most Americans covered by employer-based health insurance rarely bother asking: Why? - Pinder's spark of curiosity became the catalyst for her next career move. Today, the former New York Times editor runs ClearHealthCosts, a Web site dedicated to bringing transparency to the healthcare market, which she calls "the last big opaque marketplace."

[Carl Straumsheim:] Veteran journalists like Pinder sometimes admit to falling behind the new-media curve as their industry embraces the Internet. But a growing number are taking the skills learned in the newsroom and their personal brands to launch online startups.

More - Continue to read Carl Straumsheim, www.ajr.org