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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Newspaper webcasts its editorial meetings

Now here's a thing - opening up the newspaper decision-making process to the world. A paper in Spokane, Washington, this week began webcasting its editorial meetings. So anybody, including competitors, can watch the senior staff at the Spokesman-Review discussing what they plan to run in their paper. The editor, Steven Smith, has already pioneered what he calls the transparent newsroom, which enables debates with readers over content. But webcasting, he says, will "engage our readers in conversations about news, the editorial decision-making processes and so on." Gosh! (Via poynter.org)

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