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paulwiggins
 Post subject: SMH: Noted for the record.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:58 pm 
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Sydney Morning Herald production from the integrated newsroom has begun.
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J Kaufman
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More than 450 Herald journalists and support staff are seated on one floor, close to TV, audio and photographic studios and editing suites.

The Herald's editor, Alan Oakley, said the newsroom, with its massive floor area and uninterrupted sight lines, enabled the best possible communication between the digital news-gathering operation and print/online production. At its core is an orbital nerve centre that brings the integrated newsroom to life, Oakley said.


Just like the Panopticon.
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Phillip Blanchard
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"editing suites"
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Not a fancy name for the traditional workstation, as staffed by your present interlocuter (below). Editing suites allow various audio and visual adjustments to made. Akin to an advertising recording studio at a radio station and bearing in mind company also owns a radio network.


I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*.
_ Buck Murdock Airplane II

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Uninterrupted sight lines. Because there's nothing a copy editor likes better than endless visual distractions.

(Nice citation, by the way, Paul.)
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1. Ergonomic keyboards. Nice.
2. Glad to see there is still a need for [several] scissors.
3. Computer towers have flat tops so we can pile papers on them. That keeps 'em off the desk!
4. Why are you attempting to staple a water bottle?
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