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Today is my one-year @WSJ anniversary! Can't believe a whole year has gone by already (nor that I'm still in London!)
It has been a crazy time but I'm really proud of the work that our newsroom innovation team has done...
It has been a crazy time but I'm really proud of the work that our newsroom innovation team has done...
We started by making sure we were really listening to everyone in the newsroom, and that ideas really can come from anywhere and anyone https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1237340538220818438
We experimented with ways to make our journalism more accessible https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1243463948671778817
such as moving quickly when the pandemic hit, to help readers find The Journal's free-to-read Coronavirus resources https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1244936847723311106
We worked with @wsjnoted to think of news ways to showcase the lives and personal stories of people going through the pandemic https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1247898966928183301
There was that time we made WSJ Jigsaw puzzle (with @elliot_bentley) https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1253306593015365633
We (by that I mainly mean @pietropassarell) asked questions like: "How do we effectively combine a time-based medium like video with text, where you can read at your own pace?" https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1255858830057103361
We run a blog! The Digital Experiences & Strategy Medium blog is where we talk about insights, lessons learnt, and cool new projects coming out of the entire department https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1263148373399474178
One of my favourite projects this year was the WSJ Money Challenge email course; in part because I got to work with @bourreelam and @juliaccarpenter on it. https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1293993692668342282
By September we had developed enough of a process and rhythm that we could talk to @alansoon and @rishadist about how our team prototypes news products without feeling (and sounding) extremely silly doing so. https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1303605653299228674
In the run up to the US Election, we made a location-based content prototype, to explore how we might tailor news experiences without it venturing into creepy surveillance-tech territory https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1313153958840541190
Oh, and of course, we had memorable VR meetings, courtesy of @RogerWallstreet's work https://twitter.com/RobinKwong/status/1319289344281038852
The projects were all great fun but I'm most proud of how we regularly came together as a team to ask the tough questions:
- What does newsroom innovation even mean?
- What change we want to create?
- How do we want to work together, and with others across @WSJ?
etc
- What does newsroom innovation even mean?
- What change we want to create?
- How do we want to work together, and with others across @WSJ?
etc
So in short, it's been a pretty good year, despite *gestures broadly at everything*
And I can't wait to see what we'll get up to in the next twelve months!
And I can't wait to see what we'll get up to in the next twelve months!
