If you run a newsroom or wish to lead a digital transformation in your newsroom, you should read Tom Meagher‘s Things I never learned at newspapers about making news on the Internet.
Go ahead. Read it and come back. Nothing I say here will make sense until you read it.
Now that you’ve read it, some thoughts from me:
You should get to work quickly learning and applying the points he discussed. This is as helpful a guide for transformation of a newsroom as anything I have written or will write about Project Unbolt, so I’m making it part of my Unbolt series (I’m planning several more posts this month).
Tom said it all better than I will, but I’ll elaborate on a few of his points: (more…)