I would also offer: product and technology are often outsourced and considered last, but most newsrooms exist on the web first. Building in-house teams that can build deep institutional knowledge, and allowing product and technology thinking - two different disciplines - to rise to the C-suite, allows newsrooms to be more strategic in those areas. So many newsrooms blindly follow, or embrace technology hype cycles, or simply undervalue the platform they’re published on as a factor in their success and ongoing sustainability.
I would also offer: product and technology are often outsourced and considered last, but most newsrooms exist on the web first. Building in-house teams that can build deep institutional knowledge, and allowing product and technology thinking - two different disciplines - to rise to the C-suite, allows newsrooms to be more strategic in those areas. So many newsrooms blindly follow, or embrace technology hype cycles, or simply undervalue the platform they’re published on as a factor in their success and ongoing sustainability.