Newsroom

Newsdesk (English term for " news desk " ) also newsroom, central production unit or colloquially bar actually refers to the workplace, go to the current messages. Derived from this, it means a new form of organization in newsrooms of newspapers, where departmental managers from different departments sit at a common table and define the themes and messages and place, thus producing the newspaper. Often several newspapers of the same publishing house and its digital media such as websites and radio news are covered by the newsroom. Separately, are the journalists who write the posts.

History

Newsrooms are from the United States. The newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer to have in the fall of 1994 one of the first set.

Benefits

An advantage of this solution is adopted by more and more newspaper editors, a better coordination of the ministries. However, it restricts the independent work of the classical department and allows greater control of work processes and contributions. Prerequisite for the establishment of News Desk is a content management system that at any time access to all allows the nascent newspaper pages and digital media. Such editorial systems have been introduced since the 1990s. More and more newspapers organize from their online and print editions of a single newsroom, such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau. In the newsroom of the Axel -Springer- tower in Berlin, World on Sunday, the world will be compact and designed the Berliner Morgenpost of a newsroom with about 400 employees. In the newsroom of the view publications in Zurich employs around 200 people.

Criticism

A criticism of the newsroom concept is that this editorial jobs can be saved. The articles are more frequently of freelancers and no more of tenured reporters and local journalists. So, for example, has the threat of the independent press by more and more temporary work in the editorial criticized the national chairman of the German Journalists Association Michael Konken Labour Day 1 May 2008 sharply: " Some publishers make every effort to degrade journalists to approve hacks ". He cited more than a dozen newspaper publishers in Germany, which occupy its claims to qualified editorial jobs only permanently with temporary workers.

Editors who work at news desks also find fault with spatial confinement and disorder of their work by noise nuisance in a Large office.