Take a few moments and familiarize yourself with the chart above.Note the organizing principle of newsrooms. It used to be that we were organized around sections — news, sports, business… — and job descriptions — reporter, editor, photographer, designer. Then along came online and we were organized around media — print, online.
But in this new ecology; newsrooms need to be organized around topics or tags or stories because the idea of a section is as out of date as the Dewey Decimal System (anyone even know what that is?)
Stories and topics become molecules that attract atoms: reporters, editors, witnesses, archives, commenters, and so on, all adding different elements to a greater understanding. Who brings that together? It’s not always the reporter or editor anymore. It can just as easily be the reader now.
In class today an unexpected journalism field trip came up Friday afternoon, so some 9th period students are at a conference today. Everyone else has a sheet with two news story notes- one on the front, the other on the back; that is two separate stories. Read through the instructions. Organize your notes and decide what quotes you would like to include. Then write the story. As there are two- and this should take two days, in order to do a good job- send along both of them together as an attachment at the close of class tomorrow.
Those folks on the trip today need only write one story.
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