After enjoying an Internet outage, along with no phone service, in my newsroom of employment today, I couldn't help but think of one word: "telecommute." When your building is an urban dinosaur, and your IT infrastructure hearkens back to the days of rustproof Commodore 64s, it is time to rethink your business model.
To stay ahead of the curve, it's got to be all about having mobile staff members with mobile communicating capabilities -- possibly with a smaller, sleeker nerve center with a few key personnel. Between instant messaging on computers, to iPhones and BlackBerries, a newsroom should be a room constantly on the move.
Sure, some laptops for employees, along with fancified phones of choice would rack up some bills, but it would even out in the end with happier employers and lower overhead for workspace.
Working in a city with creaky, crumbling infrastructure, and still keeping up with the pulse of current, fresh reporting does not jive together. I am no Wolf Blitzer, but you don't need a Situation Room to realize this is not breaking news.
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