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TV Satellite truck in a 65-pound backpack
The next time you see one of those big TV remote trucks with the dishes on top, think about this: CNN does much the same that the truck does with a 65-pound backpack of electronics. That was one of the things I learned about at the “Journalism 3G: A Symposium on Computation & Journalism” conference…
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Elizabeth Spiers’ secret sauce
It’s one of my theories that mainstream media needs to operate a lot more like startups: nimble, flexible, quick, resourceful and hungry. We need to particularly be doing this when we create our own internal “startups.” So it was nice to hear Elizabeth Spiers share some of the secret sauce ingredients to making a successful…
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An update on the transformation of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On Friday afternoon at “A Symposium on Computation & Journalism” (a sort of geeks and journos mashup at Ga. Tech), Shawn MacIntosh, director of culture and change at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, gave an update on the upheaval at the AJC as it tries to remake itself for the digital age. It was just a year…