VIDEO: 'Mapping the newsroom' underway at UC-Berkeley

Key collaborators developing the program for NewsTools2008 met on Monday, March 17 at the University of California Berkeley School of Journalism to begin "mapping the news ecology" for the future.

The conversations ranged from what tools are disruptive to journalism, to the changing job description of journalists - whether we call them 'community organizers' 'guides,' 'curators,' etc. The conversation was diverse and in-depth. The goal of the meeting today was to map out the structure of the newsrooms of old.

Take a look at the video below and ask yourself: What is the hierarchy of relationships in this newsroom? How does the 20th century newsroom manage its relationships to sources, readers, advertisers, publishers, etc? We spent the day mapping those relationships out. Tomorrow we will discuss how the newsroom of this next century will be entirely different.

Also: For a quick snippet of part of our conversation - see the video below:

The new newsroom? Joel Kramer, (portrait, right) editor/publisher of MinnPost.com, stands behind the Minneapolis newsroom with key editors seated, clockwise from left, Susan Albright, Corey Anderson, Don Effenberger and Casey Selix (who blinked). (Click on either photo to enlarge).