One of the early insights we had was that there would NOT be a single ideal newsroom, but rather, that we were entering an era of many next newsrooms. These would include everything from metro newsrooms to bloggers to non-profits to citizen journalists platforms. So the next step was to identify a handful of principles we thought should be embraced by any of those newsrooms: 1. The newsroom should be multi-platform. 2. The newsroom should be a center of continuous innovation. 3. The newsroom should place its community at the center of everything it does. 4. The newsroom should collaborate with other newsrooms in its local ecosystem. 5. The newsroom should practice transparency to build and maintain trust.