Across town, Jay Small at Scripps offers a long and thoughtful essay on how innovation happens (or doesn't) at news organizations headed for the online world. His audience is "newspaper operators" and, I would guess, newspaper designers and online staff members... or prospective ones... who would like to be part of something new in news.
Says Jay: "I hope it generates some discussion, questions, debates and
disagreements. I need to keep noodling this myself, listening to
others' opinions, and refining my own. Sometimes it feels as though
arriving at a method and mindset for innovation is as much trial and
error as the product development process itself." That sounds a lot like something I heard from another online/design guru, Robb Montgomery, and a reader discussion, a couple of months ago -- about the need for news organizations and journalism educators to cultivate a "culture of innovation" in journalism... rather than just focus on adopting or teaching flavor-of-the-month innovations.
Back on campus, Innovation in College Media caught up with Rob Curley of the Washington Post, asking good questions about... well... innovation in college media -- including his suggestions for staff organization at a student newspaper's website.
(Our new/news site http://tennesseejournalist.com at UT uses the core software behind the sites Curley previously led in Lawrence, Kan., and Naples, Fla. The evening video newscasts at NaplesNews.com are definitely worth a look, both for production values and content.)
More food for innovative thought here: Student reminder: When I go a few days without a blog entry to read, feel free to poke around in my http://Del.icio.us/bstepno collection of bookmarks, many with bloglike comments.
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