If Steve Yelvington didn’t exist, we would have to invent him. Latest evidence:
Read my lips: This is not a temporary maneuver in response to an economic cycle. This is permanent structural change.
via Obsolete jobs: Wire editor, features editor | yelvington.com.
On a day when the Sun-Times Media Group intimated it would reduce the frequency of its suburban dailies, and on which boston.com reported that the Boston Globe could be shuttered without union concessions, Steve Yelvington looks at how survivor newsrooms are reorganizing (or re-re-organizing) into converged operations, and lays out some do’s and don’ts:
The era of newspapers operating wholly separate online divisions clearly has ended, and the era of integrated newsrooms has begun. From that union we’re all learning some things.