Brand Newsrooms Descend Upon Euro 2016
Sky Sports, ESPN, The Guardian, and the BBC aren't the only ones bringing large newsrooms to Euro 2016.
The Content Strategist
Sky Sports, ESPN, The Guardian, and the BBC aren't the only ones bringing large newsrooms to Euro 2016.
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You can't throw a stone at a marketing conference without hitting someone talking about brand newsrooms. But what does this brand newsroom of the future—this entity that will transform brands from the sloths of the content world to jet-packed cheetahs shooting to the head of the media pack—actually look like?
Somewhere behind those ninja turtle-dressed humans and crazy Vines, there's human mind—or, more likely, multiple human minds—devising and executing a brand's content strategy. And inside those "brand newsrooms," they're feeling stretched thin.
Brand newsrooms are complex beasts; they're modern-day Gryphons, really, that sport the head of a marketer and the body of journalist. And somehow, those two halves have to figure out how to coexist gracefully.
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