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SUMMARY:Changing BBC News: the cultural\, managerial and editorial challen
 ges of adapting to a digital environment - Simon Andrewes
DTSTART:20101207T180000Z
DTEND:20101207T191500Z
UID:TALK27548@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*ABSTRACT*\n\nOver the last decade the pace of change for big 
 media organisations like the BBC has been unprecedented\, as they work to 
 keep pace with the changing digital landscape. To the outside observer thi
 s may manifest\nitself in the form of new products and services\, such as 
 iPlayer\, but what's much less apparent is the degree of internal upheaval
  that's involved.  Simon Andrewes is currently leading a project to delive
 r and implement a set of online tools known as the Journalism Portal - to 
 help BBC Journalism collaborate and share more effectively. It's based to 
 some extent on bringing the concepts of social networking into the Journal
 ism\nworkplace\, and it is the latest step in the BBC's long and sometimes
  bumpy journey towards a multimedia and multiplatform destination. That jo
 urney has involved management restructuring\, physically moving teams\ntog
 ether and driving technological change in the way journalists work. In thi
 s seminar he will discuss some insights gained into the cultural\, manager
 ial and editorial challenges of adapting a large traditional news organiza
 tion to a digital environment.\n\n*About the speaker*\n\nSimon Andrewes wa
 s formerly Head of Newsroom development at BBC News specialising in the de
 sign and delivery of large-scale organisational change. Earlier this year 
 he left to become an independent consultant\nand is currently engaged by t
 he BBC as Programme Director for the Journalism Portal. In his 28 years at
  the organisation he has worked as producer and editor on a range of TV an
 d radio programmes\, and for the\nlast ten he has been a senior manager in
  News at the heart of the organisation's digital transformation.\n\n
LOCATION:Wolfson College\, Old Combination Room (OCR)
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