It would be interesting to know what Bob Dickey & Co. say during this morning's teleconference about reports of the pending launch of five big production hubs. They are to design and build pages for many of the 81 U.S. Community Publishing newspapers.
A Gannett Blog reader close to New Jersey's Asbury Park Press says there are a series of meetings scheduled for today in the APP newsroom, "including a mandatory one for senior editors and a mandatory one for the regional copy desk. Presumably about the editorial hubs."
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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It's officially official. So long, local newspaper design -- hello, regional fustercluck.
ReplyDeleteMore details, please. How many papers are part of this? Which ones are exempt? Where will these hubs be sited? What's the timetable? How will this benefit readers and advertisers?
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be incredibly interesting to see how this plays out.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like Gannett is obviously moving to these design hubs, but until they are up and running, they will be depending on people who will soon be out of jobs to continue to do their work and maintain a level of professionalism and high standards at each individual site?
As a former Gannettoid with a lot of friends still there, I'm curious about what they said about layoffs and who/how many will be left to man the desks at each site.
How sad. Management has ignored how big of a disaster the regional copydesks have been. Instead of admitting the failure, the company steamrolls ahead with more cutbacks. What a freaking joke.
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ReplyDeleteThis went out in Cincinnati:
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From: Callinan, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:03 PM
To: Cin-News Directors; CIN-Sports Editors; CIN-News Desk; CIN-Metro Editors; CIN-Features Editors; CIN-Online Managers
Subject: Gannett announcement on new system, design centers
There was a conference call this morning in which Gannett announced plans to move to a single content management system to be used by all of its newspapers. The new system will be CCI Newsgate and represents a $15 investment by the company.
Now that the announcement has been made (it has not been talked about much openly while the contract was being signed) there will be an open discussion about what that means to Cincinnati.
The biggest news is that we will be part of a regional design center approach that will see news content paginated in Louisville (there will be four other "hubs" -- Asbury Park, Nashville, Des Moines and Phoenix.
The CCI Newsgate rollout will start in 2011 and the design centers will be set up over the next two years. We will find out where we fit in the schedule soon.
We'll meet in the conference room at 4:30 to start talking about how we will manage this.
But at this point the above is pretty much all I know.
TC
Who is coming up with these lame ideas? NNCO and the Wisconsin group had consolidated Adtracking systems in place. All the problems uncovered during the experience is happening all over again. The same will happen with the pagination hubs. I wish someone at corporate had a backbone and would tell the big wigs that this will not work.
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ReplyDeleteWisconsin and NNCO already have consolidated copydesks. There are several other regional hubs already in place. This is just taking the concept to the next level. The real change will be the consolidated system. That affects the entire newsroom, plus production, at every newspaper.
2:10 Pm -- It will work even if it doesn't work. In the eyes of the idiots that designed it. Flee this sinking ship as soon as possible.
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