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Guardian PDA: Publishers need to mimic tech firms, says FT.com chief

April 21st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Oliver Luft in Editors' pick, Journalism, Multimedia, Newspapers, Online Journalism

Ien Cheng, publisher and managing editor of FT.com believe that newspaper websites need to be more responsive to the whims of the web and act like technology companies - adapting to the almost constant changes of the online environment.

Guardian PDA highlights Cheng’s strategic approach:

- Improving the development of new editorial products
- refining the subscription model
- changing the way the business works internally

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Jay Rosen @ Journalism Leaders Forum: UK newspapers two years behind US in audience interaction

October 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted by Oliver Luft in Online Journalism

New York University Journalism School professor Jay Rosen told the Journalism Leaders Forum @ UCLAN, that based on what he had heard at the forum UK regional newspapers seemed two years behind the US for developing editorial products that relied on large-scale user-interaction.

Responding to comments made by Trinity Mirror Regionals editorial director Neil Benson, that the next year would be about experimenting with new editorial projects that relied on great audience interaction and overcoming journalists resistance to allowing the audience to interact, Rosen told the forum that those barriers to audience interaction began breaking down in the US two years ago and that newsrooms there were now addressing how best to cross ‘the digital sea’.

Listen here to Neil first explain his position (in response to a question from Chair Mike Ward about whether or not it was yet possible to see ‘scalable and durable’ models for editorial/user interaction products) then Jay comment on the developments in the UK (Note: both were phoning into the forum so the sound quality isn’t perfect).

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