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Team work. Cross-editorial staff system Multimedia team Virtual team “ Newsplex”. Cross-editorial staff system (Ressort übergreifende Teams). Traditional work has been “departmentalized” : Economy in a room and politic in another separated room
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Team work Cross-editorial staff system Multimedia team Virtual team “Newsplex”
Cross-editorial staff system(Ressortübergreifende Teams) • Traditional work has been “departmentalized” : Economy in a room and politic in another separated room • New Form: political editors work together with economical editors. • Exchanging information and thoughts. • Enhancing creativity in both fields. • More possibility to integrate European topics
Multimedia team • After entering the TV station an editor must write a news for TV, anther one for Radio, an article for newspaper and go online. • Specialists seat together in the same room, discuss topics, exchange information and insights, using common sources.
...multimedia team… • Paul Maidment, “Financial Time”, London: “We’ve created a completely integrated newsroom that works acros print and online, so we don’t have FT.com journalists and we don’t have newspaper journalists. We just gave FT journalists” • It is easier and more fitting to decide the kind of news to be used for the right media.
Jerusalem Post multimedia team • Print, Online, and Radio journalists work in the same Newsroom with the Editor in chief and the president of News Media.
Virtual team • Since more than 400 years editors, freelance, reporters, and all kind of collaborators in the same building with rooms surrounded by walls and just a door. • The outcome appeared in the same building. • With the virtual journalism of the 21st century journalists travels with Laptop and, write everywhere and transmit their text, sound of pictures from all the places. • A centralized newsroom has lost importance.
Kuala Lumpur from 400 to 50 • Utusan Malaysia used to be a traditional daily newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with 400 journalist working in the same building and delivering print and online editions. • Since 2001 the system was radically transformed in a “Virtual Newsroom”. • I saw it in 2002. • It is planed to reach the goal of just 50 journalists working in the central building saving of 500 000 US$ each year. Limited unemploiment.
“Newsplex”, an IFRA Project • Infra is an international organization von publishers based in Darmstadt. • In 2002 is started a very innovative project, initiated by Kerry Northrup and dealing with “teaching , training and research of cross-media newsgathering, story presentation and multiple-media publishing strategy: video, audio, print, online”
… Newsplex… • The “material” for all media are digitally saved and stay to disposal to all the media of the chain, doesn’t matter for the kind of media, papers or inline. • The main building was designed by the New Yorker architect Saf Fahim, special expert in creating newsrooms.
Useful systemsfor communicating Europe • All this new ways of making journalism, from Cross-editorial staff system, can be very instrumental in communicating Europe. • Interaction between journalist dealing with several fields can provide more opportunities, occasions and motivations to ”catch” European news to be inserted in all kind of reports, story or news. • It is important that in in a team a journalist has special interest for European affaires.