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Teaching Online Journalism » Journalism jobs: Online design producer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:54:53 +0000

[...] the sake of comparison, see my earlier post about the requirements for an online NEWS producer at The Washington Post.) This entry was posted on Friday, February 29, 2008, at 8:04 am and is [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:28:35 +0000

“A much more desirable position if it could be done remotely.”

I guess you’ve never been to the WPNI office!

By: Pat Thornton

Pat Thornton — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:27:55 +0000

Sinker,

Why can’t this largely be automated too? I find it hard to believe that much news is being produced between 11 p.m. - 6 a.m. at the Post. A good CMS will allow you to specify when to change content in the future.

Thus you could program it to change the lead story at 6 a.m. and most of the homepage content as well.

And I hope to God that the Post isn’t still copying stories from their print system into their Web system. How 1990s. A good work flow pushes content to the Web before it is laid out in a newspaper system.

Plus, most stories are finished well before 11 p.m. They should already be on the Web by then.

The rest of the work could probably be done remotely as you said. I’d never work that shift. It sounds like monkey work.

By: Sinker

Sinker — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:15:56 +0000

Too bad they’re still stuck thinking that someone has to come into an office to do that. A much more desirable position if it could be done remotely.