SOM · Field Notes
Understanding the Story Object Model.
Detailed explainers on the open standard for newsrooms: what it is, how every tool fits, how it compares to MOS, and what it takes to run the bus.
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MOS vs SOM: what each newsroom standard is for, and why you need both
MOS lets the newsroom system drive the devices that put a rundown on air. SOM shares the story itself with every system around it. The two standards compared, side by side.
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The story-centric newsroom workflow, from the wire to every platform, in SOM
How a newsroom turns wires, the diary, and tips into stories told on TV, web, and social, who does each step, and how the Story Object Model describes every stage.
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The tools in a newsroom, by category, and where each fits in SOM
Newsroom systems, wires, graphics, automation, prompters, media management, web publishing, verification, AI, and dashboards: what each does and how it meets the Story Object Model.
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Who runs the bus?
An operations reading of the Story Object Model 1.0. SOM gives a newsroom one shared description of a story. What it deliberately does not give you is a broker, a delivery guarantee, an authentication model, or an answer at three in the morning.
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A bus you are allowed to break
Ten days after writing that somebody has to run the bus, we built one and broke it. What SOM 1.0 taught us from the operator's chair.
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