The CBC is facing a period of upheaval and uncertainty as it pushes ahead with plans to integrate its television, radio and online operations. The Tea Makers blog, run by an anonymous CBC staffer, raises some big questions about the process of bringing together the three mediums. It argues that while the idea may make sense on paper, it overlooks the differences between TV, radio and online in Canada: Radio
Another newspaper is moving towards an integrated newsroom, this time in The Netherlands. The process the de Volkskrant, one of Holland’s leading daily quality newspapers started about a year ago and in an interview with journalism.co.uk publisher Pieter Kok explains how it is going. I particularly like the way he describes the paper, turning the traditional definition on its head: “I like to think of us as an online newspaper
In the UK, one of the leading broadsheets, The Telegraph, has revealed its plans to bring together its editorial operations. As the veteran UK journalist Roy Greenslade wrote in his blog: “So the paper renowned for its conservative politics is about to take the most revolutionary step in its history, more sweeping than the initial introduction of computer technology, more radical than its creation of the first newspaper website (in