Friday, August 8, 2014

Gannett exec: Goal of reshuffled newsrooms is to invest ‘fewest resources necessary in production

Poynter reporting:
As five Gannett newspapers institute sweeping changes across their newsrooms, the goal is to better attract an audience of 25- to 45-year-olds, a Gannett executive told Poynter via phone.
That means reaching readers beyond print.
Freeing up resources for quality reporting that’s responsive to online audiences will allow the newspapers to be “each community’s top source of investigative journalism, of public-service journalism,” said Kate Marymont, Gannett’s vice president for news. How are these newsrooms able to double down on reporting? “We’re going to invest the fewest resources necessary in production,” she said....
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/261916/gannett-exec-goal-of-reshuffled-newsrooms-is-to-invest-fewest-resources-necessary-in-production/

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