What Is a Newsroom?
A newsroom is an office where journalists work to produce stories for a particular news medium, such as a newspaper, television station or radio station. According to World Editors Forum Director Bertrand Pecquerie, a newsroom is a "collective intelligence that manages to produce quality information within a given time frame."
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Purpose
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The newsroom serves as a hub for receiving and generating story ideas, assigning these to journalists and collaboratively producing a publication or broadcast. In an article for the American Journalism Review editor Sharyn Vane stated that the purpose of a newsroom is to create informative, entertaining or provocative content for an audience of readers.
Functions
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Journalists may conduct research for breaking news, features or sports stories in the newsroom, or they may hold interviews and collect information in the field, returning to the newsroom to write. Photographers, editors, graphic designers and other employees also work in the newsroom to prepare stories for public consumption.
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Evolution
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Computers first entered newsrooms in the 1980s, and the advent of the Internet has greatly changed the newsroom landscape. According to longtime journalist and educator Edward J. Friedlander, newsrooms will increasingly see a drop in permanent employees and paper publications as work is outsourced to freelancers and posted solely online.
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