The Convergence Continuum: A Model for Studying Collaboration Between Media Newsrooms

How structural multi-platform newsroom features and innovative values alter journalistic cross-channel and cross-sectional working procedures

“…Or, when business journalists write a text that a producer edits for print and online channels in a next step, this may also explain a less converged collaboration across channels. Such a reusing strategy relates to the cloning level in the convergence continuum (Dailey et al, 2005) that, however, does not differentiate between different roles of a text-producing journalist and a producer who prepares texts for various channels. Therefore, the convergence model may require further adaptation as discussed in Erdal (2011).…”

Rolling News as Disruptive Change

“…Different models have been presented to describe the different forms of cooperation and integration within media organizations, some of which also acknowledge the coexistence of convergence and divergence (cf. Dailey et al 2003;Boczkowski 2004, Garcia Avilés & Carvajal 2008, Garcia Avilés et al 2009, Storsul & Stuedahl 2007.…”

“…This organizational divergence has prevented VG from gaining synergy out of the offline and online combination, but it has enabled them to concentrate successfully on the specificities of each medium. In this respect, VG has resisted a movement towards convergence, as described by Dailey et al (2003). 10 However, online VG Nett still aims for integration under one editor-in-chief.…”

Cross-media publishing by U.S. newspapers

“…There are several current definitions of what could best be denoted as newsroom convergence. This type of convergence involves sharing of resources within and between media organizations [13]. At the Newsplex facilities at the University of South Carolina, USA [14], research is focused on convergence processes taking place within the editorial departments at media companies.…”

“…Dailey, Demo and Spillman [13] have presented a model of convergence called "The Convergence Continuum". The model has been created because of the authors' belief that there is a lack of a common, behaviour-based definition of convergence and a lack of a common instrument for measuring convergence effects.…”