I am pleased that Tim McGuire has offered a contribution to my series on advice for new Digital First editors.
Tim spent 11 years as editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and is now a professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.
Tim has blogged about what he wishes he had done differently as an editor. I encourage you to read his full post, but here’s the core of his advice:
I lost personal control of my calendar and my priorities, and I never thought quite big enough.
I know that in these days of reduced resources many editors are going to scoff at my two pieces of advice but I actually think the tough times make them more important than ever. 1. Don’t waste your time on minor issues and process oriented meetings and, 2. think big, transformative change, not incremental change.
I dearly wish I would have set up a rotating list of five big, direction-changing issues and insisted that my calendar allow me 75 percent availability to concentrate on the five big ideas.
Tim gives excellent advice and I appreciate his contribution to this series.
Reblogged this on SoshiTech.
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