Thursday, May 21, 2009

[CW:MONTHLY] Leading an Online Newsroom

Are you transitioning to an online news operation? In NewsU's new course, "Leading an Online Newsroom: What You Need to Know," you’ll learn what editors who have gone before you already know about making the transition.

This course offers advice and tips from editors who have already jumped many of the hurdles that you face. They share with you the practices they have found to be most successful on topics including how to hire the best people and how to restructure your newsroom to accommodate your Web product.

But you won’t just be talked through this course. You get to participate. Use the activities in this course to see how you would respond to news in an online publication and to help you be a better leader and build a stronger newsroom. This free course will take just an hour or two to complete.

Enroll at www.newsu.org/leadingonlinenewsroom and take the course on your own schedule. It was developed in partnership with the Suburban Newspapers of America Foundation.

NewsU offers more than 70 focused, interactive courses that appeal to journalists at all levels of experience and in all types of media. NewsU is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The program is a project of The Poynter Institute, a leader in journalism training.