I don’t read MediaShift often enough.
Yesterday’s post about self-defeating newsroom mentality is an absolute must read. It points out, more eloquently than I could, how important it is to foster the right attitude in a newsroom.
In a stable industry, there are often good reasons to pay a lot of attention to seniority and experience. “I’ve seen it before,” is a really reliable metric.
The problem with that metric is that it goes right out the window when you have a shift in your business, like the one that is currently happening, with such monumental consequences.
Right now, a system designed to suppress new ideas will kill you. But you don’t need to hear it from me. Go read the interview.
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