OK, judging from the response I received to the recent team building tech and postmortem posts, maybe it would help to step back and focus on something more personal, perhaps something that assistant editors can use to help themselves. I know first-hand how much the computer systems at many newspapers leave you wanting something more. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Best Practices'
Online tools that can be your secret
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Best Practices · Editors · Leadership · Online · Organization · Ottaway · Tools
Postmortems can improve newspapers
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Part of the motivation behind my previous post was that I find, in many newsrooms, training has taken a real hit in recent years and when money is made available, more often then not, it’s used on the reporting, photo or design staffs. Assistant editors, all too often, are expected to just get it and/or […]
Tags: Beat Development · Best Practices · Editors · Leadership · Reporting · Traffic · Training
Assistant editors, go online to improve team performance
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Last week, I offered tips that reporters could use to keep and advance their careers. They included: publishing your own newsletter, using double-sided business cards, how social networking sites can help you expand your beat, promote your own work online, and the value of forming your own reader feedback panel. My hope was that these […]
Tags: Beat Development · Best Practices · Editors · Leadership · Reporting · Training
Walk your beat online
January 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
So now that you’re publishing a weekly newsletter highlighting your work AND interacting with readers and potential readers AND you now have a double-sided business card that displays all the great ways people can interact with you AND you’ve become the envy of your colleagues and the pride of your editors, what’s left to do? […]
Tags: Beat Development · Best Practices · Innovation · Online