Display at IFRA, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
Yes, it will. It will deliver news across new digital platforms. But news won’t change. News remains what you tell your mother when you walk in the kitchen door, ne?
Archive for April, 2007
Tomorrow
Posted in The Times on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last day in the old office
Posted in The Times on April 30, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Stressed, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
The moment is finally arriving when I finally say goodbye to the office which I have used for the last six months or so. I have had an office for most of my fourteen years at the Sunday Times, so its going to be quite a change to sit [...]
Hub Build
Posted in The Times on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hub Build, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
I’m afraid its another one of those ‘office under construction’ shots, but this is the single biggest headache we have with the bulk of our staff coming on board on Wednesday. Sunday afternoon saw the skeleton of the ‘hub’ going up. Its a semi-circle of desks to house [...]
Posted in The Times on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hoop Dreams
Posted in The Times on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
hoop, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
In the courtyard outside our soon to be newsroom stands a weatherbeaten basketball hoop, its netting suffering from the nylon equivalent of rust. It was put up when Johncom launched Sports Day, an ill-fated venture that failed to draw readers and was closed down after a couple of [...]
News Pod
Posted in The Times on April 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
News Pod, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
Take note of the Web 2.0 finish …
Oh happy day
Posted in The Times on April 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
sunny day, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
Its all being sorted. Frantic building on the newsroom continues downstairs. The desks are being put up one by one and connected to the myriad power and network point cables. The smell of glue is thick in the air. Online newsroom staff have moved into a section of [...]
Murdoch calls print editors to crisis summit
Posted in The Times on April 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Rupert Murdoch, owner The Times (er … of London), The Sun and more recently of MySpace has summoned his editors to an urgent summit to discuss the perilous state of the industry, reports The Financial Times. When he last held a crisis meeting with his editors in 2003, it was to shake them out of [...]
Still life with MacBook
Posted in The Times on April 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
blackapple, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
Desks arrive
Posted in The Times on April 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
desk, originally uploaded by hartleyr.
You are probably not as excited as I am, but the desks for our newsroom have arrived and are being built. They will look a lot better when finished and I will post another picture. The desks are integral to the organisation of the newsroom which is going to [...]
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