Managing a newsroom
A newsroom needs clear editorial direction and coordination that reflects the realities of reporting. Structure the work, support colleagues and clarify editorial priorities. Strengthen your management approach to sustain the quality and consistency of output.
- Duration
- 2 days 14 hours
- Code
- COM13FR Code
Presentation
Newsrooms have their own activities and ways of working. Effective management in this environment cannot be improvised. This course gives you the understanding and skills to establish an effective, people-centred approach to editorial management.
Objectives
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- use the newsroom manager's toolkit in a multimedia environment;
- manage change;
- apply management principles within an editorial team;
- organise a newsroom while managing different constraints.
Program
Upholding editorial policy
- Implementing the editorial charter.
- Managing human and financial resources.
Leading the team
- Managing change.
- Building team spirit.
- Managing different personalities.
- Balancing workloads.
- Managing and preventing conflict.
Coordinating day-to-day work
- Defining and maintaining effective working practices.
- Managing print and digital publishing schedules.
- Planning ahead, making decisions and improvising.
The manager's tools: editorial meetings and forward planning
- Preparing and facilitating meetings and formalising editorial choices.
- Making decisions and following through.
Working under pressure
- Managing time and stress.
- Managing relationships with senior management, other departments, external contacts and sources.
Practical exercises to support the theory
Audience
Section editors, deputy editors-in-chief and editors-in-chief.
Prerequisites
Management experience or, at a minimum, an aptitude for management.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.
fr
en