“Good project management is hard to find in newsrooms,” Robin Kwong writes in his new guide. The nature of the news industry makes it hard to plan far in advance, budgets are often limited, and few reporters and editors receive structured project management training.
The 70-page guide, published by the Association for Project Management and freely available online, offers advice for individual journalists who’ve found themselves managing a project within their newsroom or would like to try leading one, whether it’s launching a TikTok account or piloting a new approach to election coverage.
