I absolutely hate that WSJ made this an age thing when it didn't need to be, and I absolutely think that if you find programs like Slack overwhelming that's just because no one's told you how to properly set them up.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-instant-message-generation-gap-1523972835 …
It works well for my team, spread out among many places and many hours of the day. we use email to break things out from the cacophony and chatter. But there is absolutely no way i could do breaking news without slack. I've done it. it sucked. This alternative is better.