"Gannett’s latest Great Leap Forward will go “digital first,” heavily emphasizing metrics to guide coverage, Ryan Chittum reports in Columbia Journalism Review.
It will have significantly smaller newsrooms with a few more reporters and a lot fewer editors, in part because it is centralizing production work like copyediting and page design in regional hubs.
All newsroom jobs have been redefined and current staff must apply for new jobs.
And, of course, there are the buzzwords and the chirpy editors’ notes to readers.
Assignment editors become “content coaches.”
Managing editors are now “content strategists.”
A diminished newsroom is a “bold new structure.” "
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