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We've launched a breaking news team

We've taken our first steps toward the "Newsroom of the Future." ( Full post )

The report is done

What will the future be for newspapers? How do we get there? And what practical changes can we make as soon as tomorrow? ( Full post )

Time to write. The blog returns

I took some time off in November after my last trip to The Washington Post, the J-Lab at The University of Maryland, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and the Media Lab at MIT. ( Full post )

MIT Part 2

The following wins the "missed opportunity" prize. ( Full post )

Hello from the future

Disclaimer: There's no way to blog about my visit to the Media Lab at MIT without sounding stupid and self-deprecating. These people are so out-there and brilliant it's almost scary. ( Full post )

Questions

Here's something to ponder: ( Full post )

Sociology, computers and the law

I'm in Cambridge, Mass., today and tomorrow to talk about the way we live with computers and what we can expect in the way of future technology. ( Full post )

Update on story play

So how did The Washington Post end up playing the Bush trip to Vietnam and the gay marriage proposal in South Africa in Wednesday's paper. ( Full post )

The Washington Post

The first sign that washingtonpost.com is different is the view. The online newsroom of 65 is housed on the 12th floor of a Virginia skyscraper with a panoramic view of D.C. and beyond into Maryland. The modern, industrial-looking office of glass, blond wood, monitors and miles and miles of cable is bathed in natural light. ( Full post )

University of Maryland's J-Lab

Jan Schaffer, executive director of the J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland, says journalists have to change the way we do business if we're to remain relevant. ( Full post )

The Questions That Defined the Election

That's the headline on a story in Sunday's Washington Post about the fallout from the midterm elections. The story is packaged with several others - traditionally long, narrative pieces on Karl Rove holding steadfast in the face of criticism, and one on Democrats looking for lessons in the GOPs mistakes and successes. ( Full post )

Last stop on the magical mystery tour

The travel portion of this "Newsroom of the Future" journey is coming to an end. Next week I'll be visiting the University of Maryland's J-Lab, which can probably be considered the nexis for the entire citizen media movement. ( Full post )

Scenes from the road

As part of this technology safari, I've tried to pay attention to how people live and work in this high-tech age. ( Full post )

Cultural change

It's interesting how many papers - big and small -are right now trying to figure out how to create breaking news teams and continuous news desks. ( Full post )

Going to multimedia school

Day 1 of the Poynter seminar "Online Leadership: Fundamentals of a Changing World." ( Full post )

Large-scale convergence

Tampa resembles the converged newsroom in Lawrence, Kan., in just one respect: both run simultaneous print, Web and TV operations. The rest is a matter of scale. ( Full post )

On to Tampa and St. Petersburg

From Louisiana to Florida. ( Full post )

More from New Orleans

In a previous post I talked about "citizen journalism." I traveled to Bakersfield, Calif., to observe The Voices - home-delivered tabloids of non-professional content published by The Bakersfield Californian. Although Bakersfield was a forerunner in this kind of citizen media, there are now dozens of other projects throughout the country, many of them outside Big Media companies. ( Full post )

Bits and bytes

Dispatches from multimedia day at the Associated Press Managing Editors conference: ( Full post )

From the front of the bus

This blog is supposed to be about the search for technological answers to all our industry questions, but I have to make a slight detour. ( Full post )