1. Convergent Newsroom Project Requirements

2. What is it? Convergent Newsroom is a place for journalist to manage, collect and share their work, coordinate their activities, and collect feedback from readers. When using Convergent Newsroom journalist will have access to present and prior assets which include images, text documents, and videos.

4. Persistent Structures Newsroom will keep track off –People –Assets –Stories

5. Dynamics The system will interact with the user through simple user interfaces on a web site. The system will interact with a database, subversion management system, and RSS feeds. The system will change when … –A new user account is created/deleted. –A new story is created/deleted. –A new asset is added/deleted. –A story’s assignment has changed. –A story’s priority has changed. –An “interesting” RSS feed is found.

6. Users Convergent Newsroom will have three types of users … –Editors –Reporters/Photographers –Public user

7. Editor Editor will be able to … –Access and add assets into the database –Delete assets –Assign stories –Delete users from the system –Change a story’s priority –View comments from public users –Message co-workers

8. Reporter/Photographer Reporter/Photographer will be able to … –Access and add assets. –View assignments –View comments from public users –Message co-workers

9. Public User Public user will be able to … –Read the news. –Give suggestions to the journalists. Vote for slugs they are interested in. Leave a comment (“That front page story last Monday offended me!”)