Focus on the story, not the pipeline, says The Seattle Times' David Boardman

WanIfra reporting:
City newspapers in the US have been among the toughest hit by a disrupted business model and economic recession, and those that want to survive as successful businesses are being forced to make some dramatic changes to the way they operate.
One such paper is The Seattle Times. After its competitor, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, closed its print edition and let go the majority of its journalists in 2009, the Times absorbed many of its readers and experienced a welcome rise in print circulation. However, like most US newspapers, it must still seek to cut costs.
Faced by shrinking resources and the need to make use of more and more platforms, The Seattle Times, under the leadership of Executive Editor David Boardman, radically restructured its news operation.
Whereas the newsroom was traditionally separated by platform – print and digital – staff are now divided by position in the news reporting process. The three teams are:
-       creation: the reporters, who report the stories, without thinking about platform
-       curation: the editors, producers and designers, who choose the best platform for each story
-       community: the team who make sure that the paper’s journalism reaches the community via social media and elsewhere...
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