In 2008, I assembled my crack team of graphic artists (read: me and a box of colored pencils from Muji) and created a flow chart showing how content should be reported, edited, published and propagated in our digital age. I posted it on the original MyDigimedia blog, and it was tagged and reposted throughout the web thousands of times. The chart even made its way into a few journalism textbooks both here in the U.S. and in Europe.
So much has happened in the past two years that impacts journalism: the emergence of geo-social networks (Foursquare, Gowalla), the growing popularity of recommendation networks (Publish2, Vark), real-time publishing hits critical mass (Twitter, Facebook).
And our tools have changed, too. Think back to the beginning of the war in Iraq and to the “satellite news gathering” technology that was all the rage. CNN reporters plugged a portable camera and microphone into an SNG suitcase unit to for what then passed as real-time coverage. Today, a reporter armed with an iPhone 4, AT&T’s global data plan and an NYourFace flexible iPhone holder could parachute into a war zone and send live video home for immediate broadcast. Hell, citizen journalists can do the same (and for a fraction of the streaming cost) using YouTube -- and she could reach millions of viewers if she simultaneously published to her social networks.
With all these changes, I decided it was time to update the Workflow For Online Editorial Content flow chart. Just as before, notice that it’s continual -- there is no beginning or end. Download it and tack it to your cubicle wall. Make it your desktop image. Tweet it, Facebook it, send it to your LinkedIn connections. If your newsroom calls itself converged and isn’t following this workflow, you have a problem.
In 2008, I assembled my crack team of graphic artists (read: me and a box of colored pencils from Muji) and created a flow chart showing how content should be reported, edited, published and propagated in our digital age. I posted it on the original MyDigimedia blog, and it was tagged and reposted throughout the web thousands of times. The chart even made its way into a few journalism textbooks both here in the U.S. and in Europe.
So much has happened in the past two years that impacts journalism: the emergence of geo-social networks (Foursquare, Gowalla), the growing popularity of recommendation networks (Publish2, Vark), real-time publishing hits critical mass (Twitter, Facebook).
And our tools have changed, too. Think back to the beginning of the war in Iraq and to the “satellite news gathering” technology that was all the rage. CNN reporters plugged a portable camera and microphone into an SNG suitcase unit to for what then passed as real-time coverage. Today, a reporter armed with an iPhone 4, AT&T’s global data plan and an NYourFace flexible iPhone holder could parachute into a war zone and send live video home for immediate broadcast. Hell, citizen journalists can do the same (and for a fraction of the streaming cost) using YouTube -- and she could reach millions of viewers if she simultaneously published to her social networks.
With all these changes, I decided it was time to update the Workflow For Online Editorial Content flow chart. Just as before, notice that it’s continual -- there is no beginning or end. Download it and tack it to your cubicle wall. Make it your desktop image. Tweet it, Facebook it, send it to your LinkedIn connections. If your newsroom calls itself converged and isn’t following this workflow, you have a problem.
In 2008, I assembled my crack team of graphic artists (read: me and a box of colored pencils from Muji) and created a flow chart showing how content should be reported, edited, published and propagated in our digital age. I posted it on the original MyDigimedia blog, and it was tagged and reposted throughout the web thousands of times. The chart even made its way into a few journalism textbooks both here in the U.S. and in Europe.
So much has happened in the past two years that impacts journalism: the emergence of geo-social networks (Foursquare, Gowalla), the growing popularity of recommendation networks (Publish2, Vark), real-time publishing hits critical mass (Twitter, Facebook).
And our tools have changed, too. Think back to the beginning of the war in Iraq and to the “satellite news gathering” technology that was all the rage. CNN reporters plugged a portable camera and microphone into an SNG suitcase unit to for what then passed as real-time coverage. Today, a reporter armed with an iPhone 4, AT&T’s global data plan and an NYourFace flexible iPhone holder could parachute into a war zone and send live video home for immediate broadcast. Hell, citizen journalists can do the same (and for a fraction of the streaming cost) using YouTube -- and she could reach millions of viewers if she simultaneously published to her social networks.
With all these changes, I decided it was time to update the Workflow For Online Editorial Content flow chart. Just as before, notice that it’s continual -- there is no beginning or end. Download it and tack it to your cubicle wall. Make it your desktop image. Tweet it, Facebook it, send it to your LinkedIn connections. If your newsroom calls itself converged and isn’t following this workflow, you have a problem.