Chris O’Brien, a business columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, makes a
feasible list of suggestions for the newsroom looking to
transform itself into an online-first operation in this post for the
Knight Digital Media Center.
She discusses workflow,
deadlines, content distribution, and linking, among other things. In
short, the message is: Push the print edition aside quite a bit, accept
the future more than you defend the past.

It’s a
useful post, also summarized
here by Martin Langeveld in News After Newspapers.