Comments on: Online Newsrooms: Time for Change http://www.davidhenderson.com/2008/03/27/online-newsrooms-time-for-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=online-newsrooms-time-for-change Writer, communications strategist, Emmy Award winning former CBS News correspondent Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:24:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jonathan Robbins http://www.davidhenderson.com/2008/03/27/online-newsrooms-time-for-change/#comment-1146 Jonathan Robbins Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:07:05 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/blog/2008/03/27/online-newsrooms-time-for-change/#comment-1146 Just was reading your article on online newsrooms and as a former reporter, I couldn't agree with you more. The so-called "Newsrooms" on many web sites usually aren't helpful to reporters who want to get to someone immediately, as in, like right now. You gotta wonder if they really want the calls. One group that does a good job is the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, which pro-actively puts experts and ideas on its news site to help reporters get new or different prespectives. Here's an example: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/hottopics/index.html To further help the TV networks get stories put together quickly, the Smith School also installed a VideoLink ReadyCam broadcast TV studio on site. Just was reading your article on online newsrooms and as a former reporter, I couldn’t agree with you more.
The so-called “Newsrooms” on many web sites usually aren’t helpful to reporters who want to get to someone immediately, as in, like right now. You gotta wonder if they really want the calls.

One group that does a good job is the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, which pro-actively puts experts and ideas on its news site to help reporters get new or different prespectives.

Here’s an example:
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/hottopics/index.html

To further help the TV networks get stories put together quickly, the Smith School also installed a VideoLink ReadyCam broadcast TV studio on site.

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