tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46003939665311696092024-03-13T22:23:54.188-07:00The Next Newsroom ProjectChris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-78665779729231096742007-07-18T09:06:00.000-07:002007-07-18T09:16:28.087-07:00Central Campus update...One of the inspirations for starting this project was the ambitious plans Duke University has for overhauling Central Campus. Officially, Duke has proposed creating a new student media center on this new campus, which could be home to The Chronicle, and as well as the student TV station (Cable13) and radio station (WXDU) and others. The Chronicle, as an independent organization, needs to decide Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-69902981583584145132007-07-17T00:47:00.000-07:002008-12-11T17:17:12.563-08:00Meet Roan Oh...I finally got around to registering for Second Life. Which means, of course, that I created my avatar: Roan Oh. There's some significance to the first name, which I may share later. But for now, here he/I is/am:Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-7003572985640765832007-07-15T23:17:00.001-07:002007-07-15T23:17:16.437-07:00Newspaper Next...There are so many things a journalist has to be that just weren't on the radar when I graduated and got my first full-time newspaper job in 1992. Here's a couple more to add to the list: innovator and entrepreneur. This struck me last week as I was reading the Newspaper Next report that came out in August 2006. The study was commissioned by the American Press Institute to figure out ways that Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-19129615031102548692007-07-10T16:29:00.000-07:002007-07-10T16:41:35.693-07:00As we launch this project, one of the folks I'm eager to talk to is Juan Antonio Giner, founder of the INNOVATION Media Consulting Group. Giner and his folks have done a lot of consulting and thinking about the design of newsrooms going forward. He's been very critical of the new New York Times newsroom, which he considers too "boxy."By contrast, here is a video of the new newsroom designed for Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-38990903877999896282007-07-03T17:05:00.000-07:002007-07-03T17:10:38.773-07:00The video of the new NY Times newsroomCheck out this video the NY Times has posted about its move to the new digs. It seems the staff, including the executive editor, have some odd feelings about it. "It's like a movie set." "It feels like everyone should be wearing Prada."Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-47486423067041858942007-07-03T16:47:00.000-07:002007-07-03T16:56:07.676-07:00Another Knight experimentAmong the other Knight grant winners this year, one that I'll be watching closely is the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship that's being created at Arizona State University. They're not building a new newsroom. But they are looking at some creative ways of getting student journalists to work with business, engineering, and design students. This will all be taking place in a Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-69400864064888793972007-07-03T12:16:00.000-07:002007-07-03T12:22:15.584-07:00Fast CompanyIf there's anyone obsessed with the future and all things new, it's the folks at Fast Company. The business magazine just moved into a new office in New York. Yes, it's a magazine. And it's very unlikely that any college media are going to be moving into any large, glass skyscrapers in the near future. Still, the interior design and layout can be seen on this slideshow posted on the Fast Company Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-85858840402438180092007-07-02T17:00:00.000-07:002007-07-02T17:10:37.823-07:00Farewell to the old NY Times newsroom...If there's a big stir in the world of newsrooms, it's the new newsroom that was built for The New York Times. I'll be talking more about this later, but for now, there was an elegy for the old newsroom written by Gay Talese for the New York Observer who attended a sort of moving out party at the abandoned newsroom.The full article is here...Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-85930215218391791262007-06-29T17:26:00.000-07:002007-06-29T19:16:32.110-07:00Second Life....Or Get A Life?One of the more daunting aspects of this project is the stipulation that we create our "Newsroom of the Future" in Second Life. I happened to be in Durham, N.C. having lunch with Gary Kebbel, the director of the Knight Challenge Grant program, when I first learned this was going to be a part of my life. Over sandwiches at Satisfactions, he mentioned that the Knight Foundation had added the SecondChris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-28208112691793760132007-06-28T23:15:00.000-07:002007-06-28T23:54:17.860-07:00iTunes UAs this project gets rolling, one of my challenges is to get acquainted with the various digital efforts going on at Duke, both at The Chronicle, but also throughout the campus. I was thinking about this a couple weeks ago, when I got this random email from the Duke alumni association: If you want to keep up with what's happening at Duke, check out iTunes U, your electronic campus. Duke is now Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600393966531169609.post-77853746420270106612007-06-27T23:35:00.000-07:002007-06-28T00:05:54.789-07:00WelcomeThis is the start of the Next Newsroom blog. If you're looking for more information on the project, you can get some background at our temporary website: www.nextnewsroom.com. We expect the real site to go live later in July. And when it does, this blog will shift over there. But more on that later. In the coming weeks, this will be a place where you can come for updates on our progress building Chris O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320216819337283335noreply@blogger.com0