The World Editors Forum is the organisation for editors within the World Association of Newspapers and News Producers (WAN-IFRA) 3 October 2009 in Kiev

The World Editors Forum is the organisation for editors within the World Association of Newspapers and News Producers (WAN-IFRA)

3 October 2009 in Kiev Ukrainian Newspaper Congress

Trends in European & American

Newsrooms2008 - 2012

by Bertrand Pecquerie, WEF [email protected]

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Trends in Newsrooms: a unique report about editorial strategies

• No comparable report at the moment

• 160 page report based on Editors Weblog articles (www.editorsweblog.org)

• 7 case studies about citizen journalism, integrated newsrooms, e-papers…

• The 2009 report will be published on 1 June 2009 (see your conference bag)

• More on:

www.trends-in-newsrooms.org

http://www.editorsweblog.org/

http://www.trends-in-newsrooms.org/





The 8 key words for 2009

GOOD TO KNOW… BUT DIFFICULT TO DO

• Participation / News sharing process

• Convergence / Partnerships

• New Storytelling / Lack of training • Personalization / Fragmentation

• News to use / Ethics


The 24/7 newsroomand what must be changed


Convergence:The new paradigm of journalism


The new daily workflow


Interactivity with readersat EL PAIS


The new storytelling process


Participation: the circle of power has changed

« News is nolonger a lecture.It is a conversation. »Dan Gillmor


10 years for understandingnew audiences

Use of interactive

features: it’s just

the beginning…

It will take ten

years to understand

the new news process


Web2.0 world: look for popularitydon’t forget quality

The Web2.0 world is fragmented and focused on news sharingNewspaers are not prepared to this revolution


Different ways for interacting…

• Offer your readers the possibility to share news (the Washington Post)

• Offer your readers to send you news, photos and videos (Bild, Germany)

• And then choose to pay them or not as « citizen reporters »


America / Europe

Newsroom design is different


Integrate print and online…and redesign your newsroom

• Impossible to become a 24 hour news provider without a new organisation of the newsroom

• Reinforce the central desk as if it was a control room in a TV station (The Daily Telegraph)

• Insist on media training and encourage your staff to be multiskilled (Die Welt)


The hub and spokesnewsroom design


But don’t forget that…a newsroom is not a prison

• Journalism is creativity, not productivity

• Don’t transform the newsroom into a control room

• Take your time: you need to convince your staff instead of stressing it

The Jeremy Bentham panoptikon (1795)

and the Daily

Telegraph newsroom

(2006)


The hub… without the spokes

• Newsroom designat Trinity Mirrortitles in Birminghamis more flexible.

• News conferencestake place in the hub

• Multimedia deskis close to the hub.


The hub… without the spokes (2)

Newsroom design at Nottingham daily newspaper


America / Europe

Content is different,

Newsgathering too…


The newspaper contentdramatically changing

« Newspapers

will become

Viewspapers »Simon Kelner

The Independent

UK


Personalization:become an aggregatorand multiply websites

Before / After • Top-down journalism / News is a conversation• Distributing information / News-sharing model• Newspaper-centric / Multi-platform newspaper• Old generation oriented / Reconquering youth


Create a multi-newspaper newsroom

• Don’t focus on digital only: the goal is to reach segmented audiences• One newsroom, two or three newspapers: it’s possible. See the Axel

Springer strategy in Germany• For regional newspapers, why not a free paper or hyper-local

newspaper + the traditional newspaper


America / Europe

Training is different


Daily Telegraph approach:train and motivate your journalists


Louise Masson lesson:Set up your own learning strategy


How The Daily Telegraph:deals with new media learning


Example of training schedule


2009 training planat Daily Telegraph


To a year end performance score


More contacts withthe World Editors Forum

• The blog is updated daily: www.editorsweblog.org

• WEF president is Xavier Vidal-Folch, El Pais. See: www.worldeditorsforum.org

• Or contact Bertrand Pecquerie, WEF Director at: [email protected]

http://www.editorsweblog.org/

http://www.worldeditorsforum.org/

mailto:[email protected]

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The World Editors Forum is the organisation for editors within the World Association of Newspapers and News Producers (WAN-IFRA) 3 October 2009 in Kiev