We had a story online yesterday and in The Gazette today about a company-wide re-organization.
I won’t go into many details here, as the particulars have been covered by Steve Buttry and Lyle Muller, but I have updated the list of newsroom people using Twitter to reflect the new, lower staffing levels.
The future of this blog is uncertain. My position as social media guide will have less to do with putting out the daily paper and online edition than it has so far and more to do with training reporters and connecting with the community in other ways.
So my question to you all is: Is this blog useful at all? I realize that other than the daily story lineups, the posting on here has been spotty. Do you want to see something like this blog continue, no matter who’s writing it?
As always, you can leave comments or shoot me an e-mail.
February 25, 2009
Re-organization
Posted by jamiekelly under Uncategorized | Tags: administrative, gazette, re-organization, reader question |[4] Comments
February 25, 2009 at 11:54 am
No, this is not terribly helpful. I’d shutter it.
February 25, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Too be honest, I don’t read it very much.
February 25, 2009 at 5:23 pm
It’s what you make of it really. Currently its only used to discuss the next days paper. As you work with other people in the newsroom on how they can interact with community this may be a place where people in the newsroom discuss … what happens in the newsroom.
With that said, the Gazette needs to move away from WordPress.com and get their own system up and running using something like WordPressMU (which runs WordPress.com) and that way you can have gazetteonline.com urls instead of advertising all day long for WordPress. I see that the new editors blog is ___.gazetteonline.com which is good.
February 28, 2009 at 6:16 pm
This blog could be much more than it is and really aid The Gazette be more transparent.
Instead of just telling us what is going to be on the front page of the print edition, why not create a new front page by hunting up some hidden gems? Or explain the decisions behind why a story is on the front page? Or what new things you’re trying in the newsroom?
Or it could become another entry point to The Gazette by being a hub for all the social media the newsroom is trying by pulling in the best tweets, blog posts and user comments.
Otherwise, I’m with Steve and Martha.