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Editorial Coordination

how you coordinate people, priorities and decisions

Editorial coordination is how people, priorities, and decisions come together across a newsroom. It covers assignments, deadlines, and keeping everyone aligned on what matters. AI can help organize tasks and surface information, so the question is where it supports coordination and where it might get in the way of human judgment about people and priorities.

Questions to explore

// use these as prompts in a workshop or on your own. There are no right answers.

How do you coordinate assignments, priorities, and decisions across the newsroom now?
Where do coordination gaps tend to cause stories to stall or get duplicated?
Where could AI help track tasks, deadlines, or who is working on what?
How would you keep decisions about priorities and people with editors rather than a tool?
What coordination work depends on context a tool would not have?

Things to consider

A scheduling tool can track tasks but not judge what deserves priority.
Decisions about people are best kept with the people who know them.
Watch that a coordination tool does not add more overhead than it removes.

using this card

Pull Editorial Coordination when it is relevant and set it aside when it is not. Pair it with the other Journalism cards, lay them out on a table, and use the questions above to get everyone on the same page. Capture what you discuss on sticky notes or in a shared doc.