The fully integrated newsroom

As more and more media are working toward convergence, the BBC is in the process of merging all of their media operations together. While other news providers have certainly moved in this direction, this is the convergence of a massive media operation. Although I am no expert on the BBC or Britain, I would imagine it would be comparable to the New York Times and NBC News doing the same in the United States. Check this out from an article in the UK's Press Gazette.

The first stage of the BBC’s newsroom integration project was completed on Monday as journalists from the corporation’s rolling television news service began working in a common newsroom with their colleagues from radio and television news bulletins.

BBC head of newsroom Peter Horrocks described this week’s changes as the first phase of the BBC’s effort to integrate its news operation across media.

“The number of roles has been reduced significantly because we’ve had to make these big savings,” he said.

“We’ve introduced some multimedia roles, but as people develop multimedia skills and once we’ve got all the platforms sitting alongside each other they can work together most effectively.”