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In our consulting and writing, we have uncovered some amazing tools and resources that you can use in your newsroom.

How to Report on Your Newsroom

 Questions for newsroom executives
This set of questions, to be asked of the editor, managing editor, and deputy managing editors, will improve understanding of newsroom goals and related training needs.

 Questions for middle managers
This set of questions, to be asked of managers and line editors at all levels below the top, will help assess training needs and gauge whether managers are receiving clear and consistent communication about leadership priorities.

 Questions for staff
These questions will help assess staff training needs as well as management training needs.

How to Assess Your Print and Online Content

 Guide to Content Analysis
This guide will explain how you can analyze your print and on-line content to create a baseline and then measure progress toward strategic goals for training.

How to Assess Your Newsroom Culture

 Guide to Newsroom Culture
This explains how to assess the culture of your newsroom and how to incorporate practices in your training that will improve culture.

Inside Newspaper Culture
The Five-Minute Guide to Culture
These two links from the Readership Institute explain culture and why it’s important to the news industry.

How to Focus Your Goals

Guide to Setting Goals
This guide describes the characteristics of effective goals and provides an exercise to help newsroom leaders define important goals.

How to Analyze Your Information

The Learning Matrix
A format for recording your observations, analyzing their implications, and exploring training options.

Your Learning Matrix
A form you can use to report on your newsroom training needs.

How to Build a Learning Newsroom

Getting Started: 10 Steps to a Newsroom Learning Plan