Carol Fletcher and Mo Krochmal will share the committee chair duties.
The group will meet again before school ends.
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- Mo Krochmal
- Mo Krochmal has taught digital journalism at Columbia and Hofstra Universities and has been a pioneer in the application of new technologies and social media to the practice of the craft. He has created and managed converged journalism news rooms and has designed cutting edge curricula for digital journalism and workflows for digital news operations.
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"A common phenomenon, not only in computing or business but throughout organized human endeavor, is a reluctance to write down the details of what we do and and how we go about doing it." Interesting article on change in an IT publication, Operational Dynamics
One of the key things we need to do first is figure out student management roles. Will we have an overall assignment editor function and then associates? Will each class and WRHU have liaison/editors working in the newsroom with the assignment editor.
Gregg
I'm still not sure of how we do what we do in the space that we are creating. OK, I'm sure that's true for all of us.
Who's on first? What's on second?
Let me put this out. For community journalism, of which Nassau News will be a key component, along with, I believe, WHRU, I am trying to figure out how we make this a 365-day operation while adhering to our mission: teaching.
Much of what my students, no matter what class I am teaching, will have students producing at least one piece that is publishable for Nassau News. Works for the students; works for NN. I won't need the converged newsroom for most of that time. BUT I want them to be able to work with students from other classes who are working on these Big Idea projects we have in mind. Should we have a revolving assignment of who's on first, in response to Gregg's query?
So, and I am rambling here -- but I understand that is permissible on this blog!-- I'd like a defined time for, at least twice a week, a planning meeting that brings together student editors/producers and faculty supervisors to do this planning. Again: Who's on first? What's on second?
I hope to begin bringing in "citizen journalists" during this summer. At some point they will need to work with someone more technologically advanced than me. I'll deal with the journalism with the help of my SOC colleagues. We'll begin identifying and working out the kinks in all that.
OH, what I also wanted to toss out here. How do we deal with the bottleneck of material coming in that needs a techie to upload, download, whatever? Will there be students on board who are specifically assigned this 24/7/365 task?
Shipp,
I don't know if we can operate 24/7 in an academic environment--but we can see what we can do.
What will you be doing this summer with Nassau News? We might try that as an experiment to see how things work.
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