RIA Novosti integrates newsroom
By Leah McBride Mensching, Monday 28 January 2008 at 19:22 :: World Digital Media Trends :: #1157 :: rss
Russian news and information agency RIA Novosti publicly launched its newly integrated and converged multimedia newsroom Monday, featuring a fully equipped, two-floor newsroom with a central hub, the only one of its kind in Russia.
The newsroom now houses an integrated news department, which enables the news agency to more efficiently cover all multimedia formats, such as video, infographics and user-generated content, as well as traditional text and photos.
The agency also has been able to enhance its entertainment items, such as cartoons, quizzes and puzzles.
“The idea of merging several news-related departments is the dominant trend in the global media business,” Maxim Filimonov, deputy editor and head of the integrated news department, said in a statement. “We are confident that such streamlining will enhance the pace and quality of our news.”
The integrated news department includes a main information department, an Internet projects department, a specialised information service and a foreign languages information service. Because 300 correspondents and editors work together in several languages, the streamlining is hoped to lead to better coordination, faster communication and higher efficiency.
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