Geoff LoCicero, on News Resourcer The News resourcer is a description of things that have to be done, but not necessarily is one person, or one job. The idea is that a variety of roles will adopt the processes and integrated into the newsroom. Some of this is of course, triangulation, and setting up processes to make sure that triangulation stays. Northrup describing how news resourcing means capturing experiential knowledge collected during a story-- this is very like Roger Shank's cognitive science ideas Newsroom's Chief Info Officer--

• First and foremost, a journalist--good at sources, searching. Other areas of expertise like library info skills to newsroom, tech leader in multimedia, facilitator (btween librarians, techs, news), familar w/multimedia formats, files. "Like a page designer" in print
• Knows how news operation works, has news judgement, be proactive & drive the story, reporting/writing/editing, trad sources
Skill details:
• Catalog, index, archive, preservation, research & retrieval, pay dbases, archives, authoritative web sites & "invisible" web
• Info management makes collab and teamwork more productive. Can do advanced, effective searches (boolean, advanced google) & teaches the j's to do this
• Info sci strengths that are needed: info architecture, intranets, create/manage knowledgebase, understand/leverage tech, do training
• This person leads the change from "lone wolf" to "team" by working to unify the info tracking, dbase, operations processes.
• Benefits: digitizing info creates knowledgebase and saves time. Document repetitive procedures and add to database.
News Resourcer in action Story breaks: searches archives/web for content across media; feed content to other reporters or to audience; edit or pull content from one format to another (with storybuilder); finding "links" to new story ideas or angles. In news operations, there is not enough time and thought given to professional development and training. This brings morale down.