I also loved how much Trei talked about the power of genuine collaboration - teams bringing expertise together to become more than the sum of their parts. Something that's really hard to do, but magic when it happens.…
But what interests me is the stat. As someone who cares about how newsrooms use data to information decision making (both for our journalism and our product experience) there is crucial context missing.…
Hopefully many of you have heard of the NPA by now and are members of the Slack community and are making use of the Product Kit, Mentoring Scheme and planning to attend the upcoming Summit at the end of April I'm incredibly pleased to say I'm joining the board of…
It's been 18 months since I started offering mentoring slots to anyone who felt I could help them. I wanted to publish a couple of observations and renew the call/option for people to book in for a session if they wanted.…
The fab team at the News Product Alliance (NPA) has just published an additional set of 8 guides, taking their Product Kit to a total of 19 guides [https://newsproduct.org/product-kit]. In their own words > Product Kit [https://newsproduct.org/product-kit] is a growing catalog of practical guides for…
Why newsrooms need to stop transforming and start changing - The news industry has had the greatest gift of all when it comes to disruption: time. And it squandered it.…
As I've been arguing for a while now, the most important thing to get right is structure - our internal structures should reflect our readers (customers) and not just be the 'traditional', siloed way.…
News media executives often comfort themselves that the digital world is moving so fast that “you can’t predict what’s going to happen next year, let alone in five years’ time”. We say that’s nonsense.…