We didn’t expect the surprise.

And we didn’t expect the gorgeous weather: 70s and perfect.

Upon arriving in a mostly empty building (it’s Presiden’ts Day and DC takes this day seriously), we were pulled aside and told the Belo staff at the DC bureau were just informed on Friday of staff cuts. The Belo bureau in DC is a combined print, online and broadcast team. I got the impression they had more synergies in the past than the present. And the staff cuts would only further that gap.

Ed and I spoke more today about how large operations like Belo and the Atlanta Journal Constitution are going more towards silo’d efforts, where departments focus on their core compentencies instead of collaboration.

Should be interesting to see how it shakes out.

It was also interesting to see the weather take a left turn, for the clouds to roll in and the skies to open. The temp dropped about 20 degrees and it started pouring. Welcome back winter.
]]> http://blog.newsok.com/davemorris/2008/02/18/oklahoma-weather-in-washington/feed/ 0 http://blog.newsok.com/davemorris/2008/02/17/flip-the-switch-hit-record/ http://blog.newsok.com/davemorris/2008/02/17/flip-the-switch-hit-record/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:22:43 +0000 davemorris http://blog.newsok.com/davemorris/2008/02/17/flip-the-switch-hit-record/ Late Sunday night we recorded a quick video from the Washington DC set.