ABSTRACT
The emergence of COVID-19 eliminated the newsroom as the core of journalistic production in a sudden and unprecedented way. Teleworking and hybrid formulas of working, which had existed in theory since the emergence of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, took center stage and emerged as an innovation in a crisis context. Automated tools, teleconferencing applications, online databases, and access to digital infrastructures have revolutionized how journalists can do their work, thus innovating the entire editorial system. In the JoIn-DemoS project, these changes are summarized under the innovation “remote work: tools and management.” Using case studies in Germany, Spain, and Switzerland, the results revealed that the hybrid telework model has brought organizational change to many newsrooms and has accelerated the, as yet incomplete, digital transformation of the working environment in media companies.
