Building the ideal newsroom for the next 50 years
Bill Neville's Page
Profile Information
- Organization
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Title
- Production Manager
- Location
- Birmingham, AL
- About Me
- Started working as a journalist while in high school, recently celebrated four decades in the field. Have been an educator and media adviser for 25 years, serving at high school and collegiate levels. Spent two decades at Georgia Southern and helped students there grown their newspaper from a weekly to a daily, while helping them in recent year deconstruct their traditional model of news delivery to a new one that took advantage of electronic delivery (via the web and other means), in the process developing a new community of consumers of their news and informational product. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, I am beginning to help lead students on a similar journey towards deconstructing their existing structure and creating a new media model for their 21st Century audience.
- Your Website
- http://www.uabkscope.com
- Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different . (And if you do, please post a copy of your answer in the forums).
- When I was a kid, the notion of comic book hero Dick Tracy's two-way watch radio (later television) was a fantasy. Today it is a reality and more. I started my career at the end of the hot type and letterpress era, participated in a transition to offset printing and cold type, saw the advent of computers shrinking from monolithic special purpose typesetters to desktop marvels and later to micro-sized units that fit into your palm, all the while the speed and diversification of our news and information "products" increased at exponential rates on a global scale, while moving from a linear flow to a radically evolving nonlinear delivery landscape. Creating a newsroom to keep pace with that level of innovation is a challenge... and one that begins,a t least on college campuses, with working to change the "newsroom culture" from one rooted in the past to one embracing the future and all its new technologies have to offer while still preserving a tradition of accuracy and excellence, and an adherence to the highest of ethical standards in the crafting of the news "product" of tomorrow. A description of a theory that was originally coined to explain economic activity and rebirth -- "the winds of creative destruction" -- seems quite apropos in describing what powers must be brought to bear in the transformation of the newsroom to meet the challenges of the future.
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