Unmerged and merging

Some highlights from the Leading a 21st Century Newsroom panel:

Jim Brady, executive editor and vice president of washingtonpost.com, said initially no one in the print newsroom was interested in online. Now newsrooms are struggling to train journalists in new technology. Post is separate from Post.com, across the river, different companies.

Merging print and online newsrooms meant changing the traditional newsroom structure, said Kinsey Wilson, executive editor of USA Today and USAToday.com Wilson: "We're in for 10 years of profound turmoil."
"As we rethink things from the ground up, we're going to have to push responsibility down as far as possible." Compared with a traditional newsroom, decision-making is done at a much lower level, by the hands-on folks.
Every day at 4 pm Brady meets with VP of advertising to discuss any intrusive ads.