Three years ago, the Christian Science Monitor began a jump-in-the-deep-end version of digital transformation. The Monitor killed its five-day-a-week print edition, started a weekly magazine version and shifted daily operations entirely to the Web.
A protracted period, most of the first year, followed where everyone was learning how to swim
, editor John Yemma recalled in a phone interview last week. For news staff particularly, the break from the old industrial process
of once-a-day deadlines was wrenching.
But over the last two years, a slightly reduced staff has hit its stride with big improvements in traffic and the news organisation’s finances — via redwolf.newsvine.com