{"id":36,"date":"2002-09-28T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T05:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/?p=36"},"modified":"2002-09-28T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2002-09-29T05:39:37","slug":"excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/2002\/09\/28\/excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 24px;font-size: 16px\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Convener<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 Tom Heslin <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Participants<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glenn Adams<\/li>\n<li>Lance Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Larry Laughlin<\/li>\n<li>Nick Pappas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Discussion<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The importance of excellence<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Key to the community&#8217;s perception of the organization<\/p>\n<p>Managing and leading to excellence<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Identify the important stories and invest in their coverage<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nurture a culture of curiosity<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Identify all of your resources<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Manage resources to excel while &#8220;feeding the beast&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Don&#8217;t squander your resources<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Do the best with the resources you have<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Assignments and workload should realistically reflect the resources<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;No excuses&#8221; &#8211; don&#8217;t dwell on the limitations of budget or staffing<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nurture a culture of inclusion &#8211; spread participation in the quest for excellence<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Inclusion gets ideas and energy coming &#8220;from the bottom up&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Set and maintain standards &#8211; get the basics right<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Training, training, training<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Create tools that help accuracy &#8211; i.e. error-tracking form<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If something is not working, fix it<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Everyone should read the publication every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convener:\u00a0 Tom Heslin Participants Glenn Adams Lance Johnson Larry Laughlin Nick Pappas Discussion The importance of excellence &#8211; Key to the community&#8217;s perception of the organization Managing and leading to excellence &#8211; Identify the important stories and invest in their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/2002\/09\/28\/excellence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/ogunquit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}