FINANCIAL TIMES: LET´S START EARLY...

From today´s The Independent and about Lionel Barber, the new editor of the Financial Times:


Barber now demands that increasing numbers of FT staffers are at their desks at 7am.

"I think we all realise that everybody's coming to work a bit earlier these days," he says, convinced news organisations need to adapt to survive.

"Everybody in the news business today is having to think differently. You have to be more flexible, to work different patterns to the ones we've become used to, the 10.30am to 7.30pm shift say."

This need is most evident at times of breaking news.

"On stories such as the North Korean nuclear crisis we can't wait 12 or 18 hours for some analysis.

We have expertise in the building who can deliver a take after an hour," says Barber, who detailed defence correspondent Stephen Fidler to file a reaction piece on FT.com.

One hour?

Well, BBC, CNN, SKY and FOX NEWS can deliver "instant analysis" in less than that, but for a traditional newspaper this must be a "first."

One of the biggest revolutions in newsroom management has to be: "start early, leave early."