Who’s on First? Changing Culture
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Who’s on First? Changing Culture`
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Teresa Schmedding
[email protected] ‖ [email protected] ‖ in/teresaschmedding@tschmedding ‖ facebook.com/tschmedding+TeresaSchmedding ‖ instagram.com/teresasch
Deputy ME-Digital Operations ‖ PresidentDaily Herald Media Group ‖ American Copy Editors Society
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Daily Herald: The Old Way
• Daily Herald: The Old Way
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Daily Herald: The Old Way
• Daily Herald: The Old Way
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Daily Herald: The Old Way
Copy deskThe webaka: THE ABYSS
Paying print subscribers I dunno
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Daily Herald: The New Way
Happy, payingcustomers across the land
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Why
• Reduce posting time
• Eliminate redundancies
• Increase quality, esp. for pay wall
• Improve SEO
• Improve morale, communication
• Increase newsroom engagement
• Increase posts in peak traffic times
• Manage social media
• Manage e-newsletters
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Results
• Posting time reduced from 12 min. to few seconds
• Isolated web team folded into newsroom• Positions shifted to content creation• Significant drop in quality complaints, direct
contact with readers• SEO hits increased• Traffic hit highest level since implementation
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Results
• Multimedia assets tripled• New assets added• Tangible morale improvement• Payroll savings• Increased posts in peak traffic times• Paywall a “success”
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Results
• Won E&P innovation award, AP best website in Illinois, AP best sports website, AP innovation award, Peter Lisagor awards, Inland design awards, ACES headline contest awards.
• Increased social media engagement
• QuadrupledFB following.
• TripledTwitter following.
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Tips for implementing change
• How you can do it without killing yourself, your staff or your bosses – and without getting killed by all
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Business plan
• Change can’t be for change’s sake• Need a business plan• Layer goals: Critical, would like,
not important
• Timeline and backup timeline
• When are you done?
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Manage people
• Adult learners need context• Culture of show me how• Why important to them?• How will this make my job better?• Solicit their input. And listen to it.• Sometimes, it’s
OK to say “just cuz”
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Results
• Big training• Little handouts in digestible
bites with pictures• Follow up with tips• Praise• Overtrain, overteach,
overcoach, overreward
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Plan a PR campaign?
• Plan it out• What are you celebrating?• What are you excited about?• What are others excited about?
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Manage your team
• Don’t go it alone• Train to strongest, weakest• Keep your team
enthused• Admit plan is not
perfect• Be prepared for
backsliding• Continuous
feedback loop• Give space
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Manage everyone else’s team
• Change you, not the system• Describe goal, ask how to get there• Ask how others do it• Be realistic about unique needs• Put needs in context• Put needs in their context• Say thank you• Say thank you again
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Final thought
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)