Derek Willis on the NYT innovation report (with tweets) · mfriesen

The Full New York Times Innovation Report
An internal report on digital innovation at the New York Times, obtained in full by Mashable, highlights the paper's struggle to embrace online publishing. BuzzFeed on Thursday published an almost-complete version of the report, which highlights some of the issues that former executive editor Jill Abramson was meant to address.
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Derek Willis @derekwillis
"We greatly undervalue replicability." The same code base generates a map for every congressional vote & election. Wait, what?
Sun, May 18 2014 01:43:22
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 01:43:22
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Missed where NYT innovation report said that "*reporters* are spending a disproportionate amount of time on these labor-intensive one-offs."
Sun, May 18 2014 01:47:10
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 01:47:10
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Maybe that's because it didn't address those kinds of efficiencies, which are more achievable now thanks to digital tools/staff, at all.
Sun, May 18 2014 01:48:50
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 01:48:50
Derek Willis @derekwillis
And idea that Snowfall is somehow responsible for time-suck one-offs makes me think that the cmte didn't do enough homework. Don't get it.
Sun, May 18 2014 01:53:33
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 01:53:33
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Culture is hugely important. We can do better. But some of the responsibility falls on each of us, too, to ask & learn to use things.
Sun, May 18 2014 01:56:11
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 01:56:11
Derek Willis @derekwillis
You cannot convince me that my very smart & talented colleagues can't learn about new things & new tools. But they have to *want* to.
Sun, May 18 2014 01:59:43
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 01:59:43
Derek Willis @derekwillis
My worst moment in teaching came when a student asked me, "How we will learn if you don't teach us?" Journalism can't afford that approach.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:02:27
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:02:27
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Journalists who use social media to promote their work should not need to be thanked for making "the extra effort." It's not extra.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:05:57
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:05:57
Derek Willis @derekwillis
The innovation report repeatedly makes it sound like the "split in our digital readiness" is something being done *to* the newsroom. Is it?
Sun, May 18 2014 02:17:02
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:17:02
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Or is it something that the newsroom itself has a hand in as well? Yes, yes it is.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:17:34
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:17:34
Derek Willis @derekwillis
“The bottom line is that people don’t know the lines,” explained one masthead editor. C'mon. We're better than that.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:19:49
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:19:49
ᙇᓐ M Edward Borasky @znmeb
@derekwillis As an outsider I don't know. But it takes deliberate practice with feedback and encouragement to build a "code mindset".
Sun, May 18 2014 02:20:29
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— ᙇᓐ M Edward Borasky (@znmeb)Sun, May 18 2014 02:20:29
Derek Willis @derekwillis
@znmeb this isn't about teaching code. it's about being able to be a decent *user* of digital tools.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:20:57
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:20:57
ᙇᓐ M Edward Borasky @znmeb
@derekwillis If the tools are crappy it's the tools' fault. Anything more complex than WordPress, Tarbell or Excel's too much.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:22:31
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— ᙇᓐ M Edward Borasky (@znmeb)Sun, May 18 2014 02:22:31
Derek Willis @derekwillis
@znmeb but if ppl don't even *try* the tools, then that surely is their fault.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:23:08
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:23:08
Derek Willis @derekwillis
It just kills me that a colleague would say "I don't even know who to ask," about a topic, and then don't find out. That's our job, right?
Sun, May 18 2014 02:32:09
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:32:09
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Blaming Graphics, Interactive News, Social & Design for web producers lacking opportunities to experiment is maddening. *Try* something.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:35:13
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:35:13
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Hell, try it on your laptop, outside the CMS, whatever. Then we can improve, edit, refine. Just try.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:36:08
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:36:08
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Web producing is a mostly thankless task everywhere. Let's encourage them to make the best of it however they can.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:37:08
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:37:08
Derek Willis @derekwillis
I'm all for strategy groups, but bulk newsroom training is really, really inefficient. People have to invest in their own education, too.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:40:43
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:40:43
Derek Willis @derekwillis
A strategy team should be a beacon, a point of contact when hard questions arise. It should not be for "how do I use social media."
Sun, May 18 2014 02:42:00
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:42:00
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Working here is the greatest privilege of my career. But we cannot stand still, or think someone else will do it, or blame just the system.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:56:13
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:56:13
Derek Willis @derekwillis
We have structural issues with our system. I worry so much less about those than structural problems with the approach we bring everyday.
Sun, May 18 2014 02:57:36
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— Derek Willis (@derekwillis)Sun, May 18 2014 02:57:36
Derek Willis @derekwillis
Sorry for the barrage, folks. Now, where's that glass of wine?
Sun, May 18 2014 02:59:40
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