Newsroom Integration Means Erosion Of Quality, Higher Stress, NUJ Says

Media companies may have sunk millions in to technology to create shiny new multi-media newsrooms, but their failure to match that with investment in their journalists is resulting in plummeting levels of quality and overstretched, underpaid workers, according to the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). In Shaping the Future, a study it published today looking at the effects of media convergence, the NUJ presents a bleak picture of media companies scrambling to ensure they are not left behind in the stampede toward convergence. While journalists were at pains not to look like luddites, saying they welcomed the challenge of new technology, the report is filled with bitter complaints about the implementation of new media newsrooms.

For example, the study found that, at The Telegraph, scene of perhaps the most notable integration efforts so far, managers tried to

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