I studied Law and Journalism because I was not very good on maths.
But I always wanted to be an architect.
Perhaps this is the reason that during the last 20 years as a media consultant, newsroom management and newsroom design have been very important issues to me and for the INNOVATION work done around the world.
Santiago Calatrava says the the secret of good architecture is “light and space.”
I agree.
Saf Fahim, the well known New York media newsroom architect, principal of Archronica, and a INNOVATION partner, explains all this very well in this video produced by LightTex, one of the providers that made possible the Newsxplex newsroom of the future.
Four of us in INNOVATION, Saf Fahim, Marta Botero, Stephen Quinn, and me have been members of the IFRA´s board of counsels since the beginning.
We know very well how dramatic is the situation in newsrooms around the world.
Early this morning I contacted some of my colleagues.
I found that our blog was getting more traffic and visits than ever.
A real “wave” of interest for these pictures.
This amazing reaction shows how important is this issue.
The future of newspapers and the newspapers of the future starts with the radical, yes RADICAL, design and redesign of our newsrooms.
Do we need them?
Do we need concentration of people when our journalists are on all the time with instant communications around the world?
What if we send almost all of them to the streets to cover real life issues, news and stories?
What if we just keep under one roof a multimedia super-desk for planning, control and central decisions?
What if we develop aggressive tele-commuting work systems and save space in our newsroom fortresses?
What if we create more open-space, solar system, walls-down newsrooms?
What if we integrate in this way the work of many outsiders?
What if we make our newsrooms a real example of communication environments?
Stay tuned.
I will post many more pictures of the problem.
And pictures of the solutions.
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