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WEB POSTED APRIL 1995
New News Products Session
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, April 27-29, 1995
The Poynter Institute's New News Products session brought together 17 people who are up to their disc drives creating online services for their news organizations. There were several goals for this seminar:
- We wanted to get some people together who have practical,
and painful, experience with the culture shift that a shift in
medium can cause.
- We wanted to capture the current best thinking about the issues,
beyond platform, hardware or company alliances, that will face
any news organization as they go from planning to running an electronic
products newsroom.
- We wanted to take the thinking, ideas, and solutions this
group developed and distribute them to the industry.
The result of these three days are inventories of issues
and brainstorming on some specific questions the group decided
were major hurdles for any new media development. Here's how we
went about the work.
First, the conference organizers George Schlukbier from NandO,
Nora Paul from Poynter, and Paul Pohlman from Poynter, identified,
out of all the possible topics, three we wanted the group to focus
on:
Content issues, Management issues and
Core Product issues.
When the group convened, we talked about the sub-topics that were
key to those admittedly broad topic areas. Then the group was
divided into three small groups which worked on listing the questions
that must be asked, and answered, for each of the sub-topics.
The whole group looked at the combined listing of over 200 issues
questions and voted which were of the most critical interest.
These questions were then discussed by the small groups. We ended
with some discussion of individual concerns, with small groups
recommending approaches for dealing with the problems.
The package of documents you will be linking to are an attempt
to capture the thinking of the group, the recommendations and
ideas that were discussed. This is just the beginning of a continuous
conversation we hope to convene at the Poynter Institute.
The issues and approaches you are working on as you forge new
ways to create news and information products will be changing
and evolving. We will be watching, listening, and, hopefully,
contributing to the effort of developing new methods for working
in a new medium.
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