- Growth in demand & range of mobile news content.
- Two newsrooms - print (small, tabloid focus) and web.
- Still be metro reporters and still be community reporters.
- More long-form journalisms in nice containers, compelling investigative stories.
- Are you in the NewsPAPER or News Business?? People now say News business.
- Have no idea what platforms will look like in 20 years. Be “platform agnostic” - stop trying to figure out what is going to happen next.
- Video not being used to full potential.
- More geographical content available. Local reporters covering their neighbourhood and knowing everything that is happening in it.
- Think more about how ppl are actually reading news and maximise your content delivery.
- Aggressive on open source, agility and specialisation.
“The question asked was “what one thing?” And it’s not just one thing. It’s never going to be one thing.
We’ve had a couple of just obscene theoretical ideas about, let’s go start a paper here and make it exactly that. Let’s hit the niche market; let’s find out what it needs to be. That’s the hyper-local; it’s to use the online, use the technology, use what’s there. That’s the future of it, people have demands and we have to figure out how to meet their demands.”
Read Part I of the full article here
“Create your own opportunities.”