You want to improve the quality of your newspaper, but have usually gone about it in a haphazard way, with spotty success. It's been hard to get everyone in the newsroom onboard. Maybe it's time to keep score. This report provides valuable assessment tools to help you evaluate what your newsroom is doing well and not-so-well and chart a better direction for the future. There's an Editorial Excellence Inventory, based on analysis of successful newsrooms. There's also a Credibility Inventory, which emphasizes the drivers of credibility. You can see how your newsroom measures up and how it can improve. The report also explains the importance of training (it needn't be expensive) in any newsroom seeking to improve and also how to measure reader reaction. In short, it will help you manage for the excellence you want to achieve.
Tomorrow's media organizations are being built today. Will you be left behind?
The Media Executive Leadership Program is an intensive two-week program that will give you the ideas and tools to lead your company into the future. Learn about it here.
Media Executive Leadership Program
July 19 to 30, 2010
MMC on the move
Where our associates are presenting in coming weeks
March 16
The World Association of Newspapers' USA Study Tour will be here for a "Day at Northwestern." The Media Management Center will teach international newspaper executives about innovation approaches.
Hold these dates
July 19-30 Media Executive Leadership Program, James Allen Center, Northwestern University. Details here.
September 27-29 McCormick Scholars Biennial Symposium, James Allen Center, Northwestern University.
September 29-October 1 McCormick Fellows Fall Forum, James Allen Center, Northwestern University.
Contact Mike Smith for more about MMC engagements.