I am a developer at The Washington Post and I help build newsroom facing tools. I also am the Chair of the DC chapter of ACM and produce a podcast called DC Tech Stories.
SO! Engineering had some teams that are very close to the newsroom and many who are not. We also have developers on the editorial side in our graphics dept which work VERY closely on specific projects and stories. Most of the engineers will have some contact with the news room but not editorial or story/content. My team supports tools for the news room so I will occasionally go and help journalists who need help with our tools and our PMs are always working with the newsroom to define and decide features to add into our suite.
That's great to hear. I have some friends in journalism and sometimes the dev team is a silo'd group who don't really care about the editorial side and vice versa.
I am a developer at The Washington Post and I help build newsroom facing tools. I also am the Chair of the DC chapter of ACM and produce a podcast called DC Tech Stories.
SO! Engineering had some teams that are very close to the newsroom and many who are not. We also have developers on the editorial side in our graphics dept which work VERY closely on specific projects and stories. Most of the engineers will have some contact with the news room but not editorial or story/content. My team supports tools for the news room so I will occasionally go and help journalists who need help with our tools and our PMs are always working with the newsroom to define and decide features to add into our suite.
That's great to hear. I have some friends in journalism and sometimes the dev team is a silo'd group who don't really care about the editorial side and vice versa.
I think SOME teams for sure are and some aren't - ranges a lot