ABC News Reboots
ABC News sees the future.
With its last major downsizing 10 years ago, ABC News announced, via email, a major reformatting. News Division President David Westin wrote: “All of us are good reporters. We can see that our entire society is in the middle of a revolution — a revolution in the ways that people get their news and information. We can have great success in the new world, but only if we embrace what is new, rather than being overwhelmed by it.” He went on to say “When we are finished, many job descriptions will be different, different skill sets may be required, and, yes, we will likely have substantially fewer people on staff at ABC News.”
Of the six categories listed for change, number 1 is:
In newsgathering, we intend to dramatically expand our use of digital journalists. We have proven that this model works at various locations around the world. We believe we can take it much further.
This not long after this December Mashable.com article about content trends for 2010. Much more emphasis on new technologies which bring about a great increase in speed of reporting and a reduced cost as more people can easily contribute.
But one rather interesting comment from BuzzMachine shows up in the article; the medium most feared by traditional news distribution...the webpage...may well be on it’s way out. Replaced by live streams such as Twitter and mobile devices. Seems a website is just not fast enough anymore.
Of the six categories listed for change, number 1 is:
In newsgathering, we intend to dramatically expand our use of digital journalists. We have proven that this model works at various locations around the world. We believe we can take it much further.
This not long after this December Mashable.com article about content trends for 2010. Much more emphasis on new technologies which bring about a great increase in speed of reporting and a reduced cost as more people can easily contribute.
But one rather interesting comment from BuzzMachine shows up in the article; the medium most feared by traditional news distribution...the webpage...may well be on it’s way out. Replaced by live streams such as Twitter and mobile devices. Seems a website is just not fast enough anymore.