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In a way, I was trained for this.

As a twenty-something, hyper-connected journalism student, I often find myself lumped in to whatever social stereotype classifies “our generation” these days. We’re the Youtube generation. We’re the Twitter, Facebook generation. We’re also the “me,” generation. Maybe we’re the Meme generation.

And yet, the biggest challenge we faced at strikesituation.com wasn’t talent or dedication, funds or manpower. It was communication.

When you’re building a newsroom in a cloud, you start to miss the connectivity of face-to-face news hounding.

I’ve worked in several newsrooms over the past four years, most of them physical, albeit antiquated, spaces.