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Managing Knowledge Assets in a Daily Newspaper Margot Williams The Washington Post ILI 28 March 2001

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Managing Knowledge Assets in a Daily Newspaper

Margot Williams

The Washington Post

ILI 28 March 2001

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News online & Online news News archives Knowledge assets in the News Library Knowledge assets in the Newsroom Tools & Technology

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News Media on the Web

www.onlinenewspapers.com Washington Post BBC World papers Local news School news Web news

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News on the Web

Yahoo News dailynews.yahoo.com

Yahoo Full Coverage uk.fc.yahoo.com

Moreover www.moreover.com

NewsTracker nt.excite.com

NewsNow www.newsnow.co.uk

Nelson www.poynter.org

Paperball paperball.fireball.de

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News Archives Online

Newspaper Archives on the Web– www.ibiblio.com/sla/slanews

Commercial Services on the Web– Nexis.com, Factiva, Dialogweb.com

Web media news archives– Slate.com? APBnews.com? theStreet.com?

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News Archives Management

Capture Storage Retrieval Repurposing

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Newsroom Editorial Process

Reporter desktop Editing & Editorial system “Front end” Photos/Graphics/Advertisements/Agate Pagination System Output

– Presses– Electronic News & Archives

• Online, Archives, Vendors

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News Archive Formats

Paper: Binders, Clips, Tearsheets Microfilm Electronic Text Archives Photo Archives Portable Document Format PDF

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Information in the Newsroom

News Library Bulletin Boards Messaging Wire Feed E-mail Internet Access Faxes

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Knowledge in the Newsroom

Sources History (Beats) Researchers Shared information files Notes Documents Archives

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Journalists’ Tools

Telephone Notebook Tape Recorder Camera Stylebook Library

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Issues

Confidentiality Security Transparency Remote Access Reliability

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Technology Now

Intranets Alert Services & “push” Personal Information Managers Collaborative Tools

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Lotus Notes

Mail Calendar Research Requests Catalog Intranet Sourcetracker

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Research Request Database

NoteBooks - LotusNotes application– www.rasco.com

Customize - Inhouse Notes developer Workflow Accountability & Performance Statistical tool Knowledge database?

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SourceTracker

NewsEngin - Lotus Notes application– www.newsengin.com

Personal Information Manager Word processor Full-text search Attach documents in multiple formats Collaborative functions Portable & remote