Madness

Angry. Just found a visualisation of the proposed BBC Newsroom at Broadcasting House, produced by architects HOK.  All wrong - but nobody ever listened to me.  The hub and spoke layout is for newsroom creationists - not for journalism.








The tired literalism of this layout - left, the BBC, right The Telegraph - actually prevents collaboration in news output, defends tired hierarchies, and stops easy movement between teams. Looks good to senior executives pointing from balconies - I haven't seen anything as bad for working together since the Newsgathering "Circle the wagons, Clint" layout of 1998.  And don't get me on the thing (not shown) that'll be swinging over the heads of the journalists. Patten would never have paid for it.  Rant over