Guardian column: The blown-up BBC
My Guardian column this week comes out of a tour of the reorganized BBC newsroom with its head, Peter Horrocks. Snippet:
As we stood there, one of many tours of the space was being held for online employees. “They keep asking who’s won,” Horrocks said - did TV take over because they are in TV’s space under a TV person? It had better not be that simple. If newsroom reorganisation - at any news operation - is about nothing more than shuffling desks, then it might as well be an exercise carried out on the deck of the Titanic. Later, Horrocks gave the real answer: “We’ve had to blow up BBC News to totally remake it.”
Tags: bbc, guardian, journalism, newbiznews
June 19th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Have you seen the Paul Goldberger New Yorker article on the new NYT newsroom or this NPR interview:
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/05/30/02
Interesting take on NYT vs. Bloomberg