I found this cute American documentary about the layout of a newsroom. It is pretty good. The structure is exactly the same as us, but the jargon is slightly different (and they are bigger, scaled up). Thus 'assignment desk' in UK language is 'planning' and 'assignment reporter' is for us 'chief reporter' (in the UK - correspondent for the US term 'beat reporter' - so crime beat, entertainment beat instead of crime correspondent, though on WINOL we do use the US jargon for that - we have beat reporters rather than corespondents). They have Edit Pods, which are just the same as we have edit machines on the production desk (the production desk is if you like one big 'edit pod') Their 'receive room' is our ENPS desk (which have not fired up yet). But this is where they get all the news wires and live feeds and what have you - notice how humungously big is their receive room (or ENPS) because US journalism is even more a matter of all these hundreds of stations constantly recycling each others pictures...
It would be very nice if somebody (Ben?) could film a 'guide to the studio' which apart from anything else would get vast hits on your personal blog and - in a way - solves the problem of writing the critical review to a large extent or somebody who wants to practice indoor capture and eiditing (eg one of the features team) assuming you can get a camera on a low priority basis.
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