Melhores a gerir o jornal que a dirigir pessoas Um estudo desenvolvido por Jill Geisler, do Poynter Institute (EUA), sugere que os responsáveis pelas redacções são claramente melhores a gerir "o produto" do que a coordenar e chefiar equipas. O estudo, que incidiu sobre as competências e desafios dos novos líderes no jornalismo, percepcionados pelos jornalistas que com eles e para eles trabalham, chegou às seguintes conclusões:

• The Product ? Journalism: The strongest skills of news leaders are journalistic. They are seen as highly proficient in core news skills such as news judgment, writing, editing, photography, producing, and ethical decision-making.
• The Process ? Organization and Operations: New leaders are given fairly good marks for their ability to develop systems, organize the work, manage their time and resources, multi-task, plan, think strategically, and troubleshoot.
• The People ? Feedback, Coaching, Team-Building: This is the greatest area of challenge for new leaders: interpersonal skills. Colleagues are quick to praise leaders who exhibit them (and many do) but nearly one in four new managers studied needed significant work in this area. Further, the study found that news staffers have a deep hunger for more performance feedback from their newsroom managers.