ABSTRACT
In March 2013 the BBC moved into a new £1bn multi-media newsroom at Broadcasting House in central London. The aim – in the BBC's own words – was to put as many journalists “under one roof … where they sit alongside colleagues who handle the essential live and breaking news content as it comes in and alongside the television, radio and online production teams”. 1 Of course, BBC journalists had previously moved between mediums – to report live for the news channel, to offer opinions on evening television bulletins, to blog some analysis online or tweet the latest update to the story – but the new £1bn newsroom strikingly delivered what is known as media convergence, more fully integrating news services between different media. While perhaps not on the same scale, the BBC is not alone in converging its newsroom. In different parts of the world, broadcasters into the twenty-first century have increasingly connected competing platforms of journalism in order to more efficiently produce news output.
