A More Productive and Fulfilling Newsroom

This article was about a Florida newspaper that was failing due to pumping out mediocre content for the purpose of filling up space. The paper decided to switch things up by focusing on major stories with better content and letting the newsroom experiment with journalism, which resulted in a happier newsroom and a higher quality newpaper. The author's argument is that by allowing more freedom to the reporters and valuing quality over quantity, a newspaper can become more interesting and brings joy to the journalists "... [due] to new opportunities to dig up enterprise stories and try out new ideas" (Nesmith). The strengths with the author's argument were that they were supported by anecdotes of the people who worked at the paper and who could give their experiences. A weakness of the article could be that it never acknowledge any possible opposition. Overall, the author wants a much more flexible newsroom. The author's arguments does support the main points of the article, because the success of the paper was convincingly contributed to the reasons the author's argument makes. The author explores additional reasons also, and shows how they might have helped to the success too. Being in Convergence Journalism, this applies because given more freedom and resources means more possiblities for us too. All in all, I believe the author provided a convincing argument that had great supporting anecdotes.