SO, YOU WANT "REAL CHANGES"? OK, LET'S START WITH THE "REAL" DAILY LIFE IN YOUR NEWSROOM

The excellent blog of John Robinson, the News & Record editor in Greensboro, North Carolina, posted yesterday this funny (but quite real) graphic.

Is this the way that we work in our newsrooms?

Yes, it is worse tha that.

This is too soft.

It doesn't include the timetable, because than you will see how much time is wasted in gossip, boring meeting, marginal and burocratic tasks, and how little time is devoted to planning, creative discussions, reporting and editing.

The problem of our newsrooms is not that they need more or better people, but they need really, desperately is better newsroom management, and focus in just one thing: think, think, think.

For what?

To find grsat stories.

To explain well the news behind the news.

To promote compelling graphic presentations.

And to think and talk all the day not with your peers but with your readers.

Newspapers are going to change a lot.

But newsrooms have to be rebuilded from scratch.

Open spaces.

Wall down.

No private offices.

Editors in tge middle of the newsroom.

Like Michael Blooimberg that in his NY City Hall.

Like Steven Spielberg does when directs any film.

Leading, inspiring, diirecting.

Newsrooms need you, editors.

Because you are not there.

Your publishers, general manager, politicians, big business people and other VIP's keep you distracted.

That's the problem.

Your newsroom needs leadership, but you are to bussy.

They too, but not doing but they have to do, and (the most frustrating thing) what we love to do:

Journalism!