Jeff Fruit

Susan Kirkman Zake

Kristen Russo

Best advice I can give (:45)

You need an open space (1:02)

Flexibility is also vital (:47)

Mindset is as important as skill sets (1:29)

Why build a converged newsroom (:50)

Role of students (:40)

Importance of a core group of planners (:24)

What I tried to do as head of Task Force (:44)

How much convergence do we really have? (1:10)

Getting students to participate (:57)

Organizing the newsroom (:47)

Not real fond of the new newsroom (:22)

Role of students in the planning process (:59)

As first editor of KentNewsNet, didn't really have a job description (1:06)

Rory Geraghty

Fred Endres

Hoag Levins

Blogs, newsletters & Web sites dealing with newsroom convergence

• CyberJournalist.net, published by Jonathan Dube (http://www.cyberjournalist.net/)
  
  
• Innovation in College Media: a group discussion about the future of student media, run by Chris Carroll, Ralph Braseth and Bryan Murley (http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/)
  
  
• The NextNewsroom Project at Duke University, headed up by Chris O’Brien (http://www.nextnewsroom.com)
  
  
• The Convergence Newsletter at the University of South Carolina, founded by Dr. Augie Grant and edited by Brad Petit (http://www.jour.sc.edu/news/convergence/)
  
  
• Journalists.org, Web home of the Online News Association (http://journalists.org)
  
  
• Knight Digital Media Center, a partnership of the Annenberg School for Communication at USC and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (http://www.ojr.org/)
  
  
• "We built it, this (converged) newsroom of dreams. So who showed up?" [Broadcast Education Association] Feedback, September 2008. A fuller account by the author of Kent State's plunge into a converged newsroom.
  
  

A few good books about media convergence

• August E. Grant and Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Understanding Media Convergence (Oxford University Press, 2008). Available at Amazon.com (@$65.00).
  
  
• Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, August E. Grant and Douglas Fisher, Principles of Convergent Journalism (Oxford University Press, 2008). Available at Amazon.com (@$36.00).
  
  
• Janet Kolodzy, Convergence Journalism: Writing and Reporting across News Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Available at Amazon.com (@$25.00).
  
  
• Stephen Quinn and Vincent F. Filak, eds., Convergent Journalism (Elsevier Press, 2005). Available at Amazon.com (@$30.00).
  
  
• Gracie Lawson-Borders, Media Organizations and Convergence (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006). Available at Amazon.com (@$29.00).

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