How Star Touch changed the newsroom

Jon Filson was working as the sports editor at The Toronto Star for four years when, one day, he was called into a meeting with his two bosses.
“They said, ‘Next week, you are going to Montreal,’” Filson recalled during an interview with J-Source on Oct. 6.
He was sent to the La Presse newsroom to learn how they ran their tablet edition. Filson didn’t own a tablet or know anything about them at the time. But he has since led the development of Star Touch, the Star’s iPad app, which launched Sept. 15.
Eager to discuss the app publicly after working on it for a year, Filson shared with J-Source how Star Touch has changed the newsroom, and why the paper’s reporters and editors now have to think about writing their stories in different ways. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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