I went to the excite news editorial department

In order to further expand the future direction of GIGAZINE, we have created "interview" as a new genre. Why was such a border born? I will have the opportunity to say the details again.

So, the first bullet is "World surprised newsSuper famous inExcite NewsIt is editorial department. Since I have never seen an article reporting the actual condition of various news websites in the first place, I interviewed with courage. The picture above is the state of the excite news editorial department.

Welcome to the unknown news site editorial department.
◆ This is Excite

Excite news editing department is in Ebisu Garden Place Tower in Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. The livedoor I belonged to before was also in a place familiar with sightseeing spots called Roppongi Hills, so the same kind of atmosphere will be here as well.

I did not know where to get from, but I arrived and for a while I got confused


On that day, the Shinkansen was delayed due to the heavy rain caused by the Baiu front on the day, but somehow it arrived at the reception of the excite for the last minute of the time.

The logo familiar on the net is in reality space


When I say to the receptionist, "It is GIGAZINE that I had made a reservation from today's 13 o'clock ...", there was about 3 seconds and I was told right after "Please give me the name of the person in charge!" , Tell the name of the person who is the Excite Editorial Department you meet this time, passed through the room, wait a while.

"Konnichiwa" came with all the exciting news editors (part of). After chatting variously, I switched to the interview mode. In addition to the public relations person and the planner / inventor of "World surprised news", the interview started.

Until "World surprised news" is made

GIGAZINE (hereinafter abbreviated as G):
"Although it is prompt, although it is quite famous among bloggers, it is quite famous for exciting world surprised news, and there are a lot of very interesting contents, but what kind of project did the project go through and how was it adopted?"

Excite News Editorial Department (hereinafter abbreviated as "E"):
"That is good, there are always obscene stories or minor news on various overseas news sites, but there is a field like news of relaxation, among which Reuters communications has delivered such information overseas. I was reading but this is very interesting, so I tried saying "Please do this" to Reuters so that I will put that kind of stuff inside, so I did not translate it in Reuters If it translates on the Excite side, it will be Iyo ~, so we started doing it. "

G:
"Did you have any difficult time as planning?"

D:
"No, it passed smoothly, right?"

G:
"Normally, all these kinds of projects come up to you, but it seems like I was wondering if I really could get a page view, and that was eventually crushed, but why did not it happen so much at Excite? "

D:
For example, excite news has been supporting RSS for quite a long time, but this also happens when the system person reads "RSS っ っI tried to be able to deliver, but what do you mean? "When it says that it is adopted as it is, there is nothing to complain in anything you do. Well, for the time being, I say whether to see the situation, I complain that I do not do anything, so I do everything.It is doing everything and every minute, but I do not get much attention Is somewhat sad? "

G:
"Is the world surprised news comparable to the start from the beginning, is there a page view, or is it gradually becoming popular?"

D:
"People came from the beginning with Babbach, I feel that it was nice to have been something that is not likely to be anywhere.CNN's speech or something is a big Reuters-level communications company Everyone seems to find it in the process of interviewing, but since it is not worthwhile if it is a single unit, it is reality that I leave it anywhere, but as a news I want to read constantly every day like a relaxation sort of thing I feel like I realized what I want to read. "

G:
"Are you going to choose something that will be delivered from Reuters at all?"

D:
"This is all for the sense of the person who translates anymore.The one who left it to leave it is smooth and there is no hindrance, than to say that it is good or something good this time."

G:
"When listening to stories it's a pretty free workplace, it's interesting, sir."

◆ Management structure of excite news

· Editing department


· How many staffs are there in total
There are several staff who are resident in Excite. It is feeling that the writer and others who are outsourcing are full of things under it.

· Rough general schedule of the day
Basically come in the morning, work all day. Everyone works at my own pace.

· How do you like lunch?
Since it is a news site, no matter what the condition that there is nobody in the editorial department, it is not easy for everyone to have lunch at the same time. Everyone buys lunch separately and eats and eats out. I am busy when I am busy normally during surfing, surfing on the net, doing crackling in front of a PC, or even during meals.

· Bragging the editorial department
There is a massage room where massage masters reside exclusively for exciting! This is a part of fulfilling welfare benefits through stylish measures by the Human Resources Department. There are a lot of female employees in Excite itself, many asthenopia and stiff shoulder stiffness, so it is well received by employees, internal regulations that it can go during the office hours. Of course, it is popular among employees.

· Episodes and legendary episodes that struggled with writing articles and coverage
There is no hard work to say especially, but "Excite Bit connector"Because the budget was exhausted at the end of the month at the end of the month, it may have been hard when the company staff went to write articles hastily. Also, since there was hardly any budget for Connecta in the early days, I covered myself and wrote articles hard.

· The readers who are supposed to read such a reader
from long ago"Woman · ExciteBecause of the relationship that has a female user ratio is quite high. For that reason, I'd like readers to quickly read and find interesting things to read. "Yahoo! News" provides news that can not be picked up, "World surprised news"It is for those who want to enjoy news altogether, as they also include funny news like.

· Tips for browsing the site
I would like you to pay attention because it does not draw much attention, but trackbacks, votes, etc., recently "Link postA system in which users can participate like "Featured articleMost of the systems like Web 2.0 are almost already included. Also,"Excite News Summary"Somehow it has become possible to see one news crosscuttingly, not only the headline of the news agency of the telecommunications company and the newspaper company but also how it is handled in the headline of the magazine is displayed in a list, "Link post"How many related topics are posted,Excite Blog NewsSo, which blogs are related to writing articles, what blogs that excite blog users are talking about on topics, what kind of sites are external links, and so on can be seen roughly I am. As trackback comes about 500 times a day, "TrackbackIn the corner, you can feel the flow of the world just like the trend of the topic on the net just looking at the number of tracks backed by.

· I am running on such a system
I think that you can understand by looking at the address of the excite news, but not only the news department but another server, everyone is in the same place. I do not understand the details for a while. In the future we would like to be like a single "news.excite.co.jp" if possible.

·Plan from now on
The world surprised news is mainly an article by Reuters, but since I deal with the same in overseas newspaper companies etc., I would like to put in such news as well.


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