4 Days at Poynter: Thinking about better newsroom systems

More to come on this as I work on translating some of my learning notes, but I just spent the past several days at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. The class I participated in was titled "Managing People and Plans for Breaking News and Beyond". I was invited to participate as guest faculty, a wonderful invitation indeed, and I presented a session titled "A Systems Approach to Breaking News."

The 4 days on Poynter's gorgeous campus stirred up dozens of good actionable ideas for broadcast newsrooms today. I took pages and pages of notes. I also got some terrific feedback on the session I produced, which is leading me to do some further research and thinking on newsroom systems, breaking news and daily coverage.

For now, enjoy these photos of some very bright, motivated colleagues in television and radio. Follow the link. And enjoy this photo of my new "Poynter-cousin" Dave Wertheimer spending a quiet moment in the garden with Nelson Poynter. (Correction: he's not Nelson, I'm told, but who is he?>