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NewsBeast Labs team creating, teaching digital journalism.
"Journalism across the board is moving away from the 'ta-da!' moment of publishing," Keller said. Social media editor Brian Ries added, "it's a result of the nerds taking over in a way. Print and magazines are very closed by nature and developers are coming in from an open sourced world where everything that you learn is shared," he said, noting that one of NewsBeast Labs' primary efforts is to help educate the newsroom.
"Sharing and educating is an obvious thing if you come from a software background," lead developer Andrew Sprouse noted. "The reason digital journalism has some of these beautiful user interfaces is because you are standing on the shoulders of programming giants before you. And everyone here in our newsroom is intelligent and capable of learning this stuff to some degree," he said....
"Journalism across the board is moving away from the 'ta-da!' moment of publishing," Keller said. Social media editor Brian Ries added, "it's a result of the nerds taking over in a way. Print and magazines are very closed by nature and developers are coming in from an open sourced world where everything that you learn is shared," he said, noting that one of NewsBeast Labs' primary efforts is to help educate the newsroom.
"Sharing and educating is an obvious thing if you come from a software background," lead developer Andrew Sprouse noted. "The reason digital journalism has some of these beautiful user interfaces is because you are standing on the shoulders of programming giants before you. And everyone here in our newsroom is intelligent and capable of learning this stuff to some degree," he said....
New and different (digital) life at Newsweek...