The Changing Newsroom

Confronting the Dual Challenge of Print and Electronic News

By Paul E. Steiger• Technology• December 15, 2006

‘To make best use of both editions, we need to be increasingly disciplined about what goes where.’ Read more

Myths and Realities of Convergence

By Randy Covington• Technology• December 15, 2006

‘… news organizations will be best served if they focus on stories—not delivery platforms.’ Read more

Media Convergence: ‘Just Do It’

By Ulrik Haagerup• Features• December 15, 2006

Changing people’s way of thinking is key to ‘the media revolution’ in northern Denmark. Read more

Navigating the Road to Convergence

By Ralph Gage• Features• December 15, 2006

‘Being small and a family-owned company are attributes that have helped us to become a multimedia news organization.’ Read more

Newspapers Have Met Their Enemy Within

By Watson Sims• Nieman Notes• December 15, 2006

‘The question is not whether the newspaper is dead, but whether it can be rescued from unreasonable demands.’ Read more

Taking the Big Gulp

By Jane Ellen Stevens• Technology• December 15, 2006

‘The Web is its own medium with its own characteristics. It is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.’ Read more

We Can Adjust to Changing Demands, But Should We?

By Joe Zelnik• Features• December 15, 2006

‘People can adapt to anything if the order comes from the person who signs the paychecks.’ Read more

Inviting Readers Into the Editorial Process

By Ellen Foley• Technology• December 15, 2006

In online polling about story selection, editors at the Wisconsin State Journal learn that ‘the readers who vote consistently do choose weighty stories.’ Read more

Vanishing Jobs at Newspapers

By William Dietrich• Features• December 15, 2006

RELATED ARTICLE “Are Journalists the 21st Century’s Buggy Whip Makers?” – William DietrichEmployment news at newspapers is bad, but just how bad depends on who’s counting. Between 1992 … Read more

The Atlantic Leaves Boston

By Robert Manning• Nieman Notes• March 15, 2006

Last December the January-February issue of The Atlantic Monthly went to press. It was the last one to be published in Boston of the 1,771 issues of The Atlantic published since the magazine was founded 149 years ago over a … Read more