ABSTRACT
The integration of digital news production into the traditional mode of print production in newsrooms is explored in this chapter by looking into these two different production modes as discrepant ‘temporal regimes’. Describing the strategies and practices that are employed in order to synchronize these multiple temporalities as well as the challenges the newsrooms face in their attempts to do so, a specific emphasis is placed upon how these temporal regimes are negotiated in order to navigate according to both temporalities simultaneously. Following a description of the print and digital temporal regimes and their significance and consequences for the organization of news production, an empirical example from the Norwegian national niche newspaper Nationen is presented. The case illustrates how these temporal regimes are entangled and contrasting at the same time, influencing managers’ efforts to change newsroom practices from giving prominence to print to prioritize an online production mode.
