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A look into TVNZ and the revamp
of their newsroom to cloud and
story centric workflows
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Mountains, the creators of cloud
newsroom solution DiNA, recently
announced a new milestone deal with
Television New Zealand. TVNZ has
chosen DiNA as their core journalist
tool, in order to transition to a native
cloud based newsroom. DiNA will sit at
the heart of the newsroom for creating,
planning and publishing news to all of
TVNZs linear and digital platforms.
The project will be delivered
in conjunction with 7Mountains
technology partner Stem Media, with
the development, installation and
implementation of DiNA done remotely
from Norway, close to 18,000km
away. Mads Grønbæk said in the
announcement of the TVNZ project:
" DiNA is built from the ground-up on
modern web technologies and runs in
the cloud. This means
that we can deliver
projects
remotely
and highly efficiently,
benefitting both the
customer and our
team " .

Given their age, they can be difficult
to change, adapt or integrate and
are primarily designed to deliver to
broadcast outputs.
We want to simplify the workflows
for our editorial teams. With the
solution from 7Mountains, we will
deploy a single system that covers
planning and deployment, editing and
production to multiple publication
points - both linear and digital.

How will this change the way
your journalists work?
With DiNA we equip our editorial
teams with one unified user interface.
This means that there's no need to
jump around multiple tools to create
and publish content which allows our
journalists to work more efficiently.
This will be a huge relief for our
editorial teams and enable them to
work far more efficiently. With DiNA
at the core of our newsroom workflow,
we allow our journalists to plan,
investigate, collaborate and tell stories
that matter and then deliver to all
platforms with ease.

Transitioning to cloud at TVNZ
We spoke with Andrew Fernie,
General Manager of Operations, News
and Current Affairs at TVNZ about
their ongoing project with moving their
newsroom to the cloud, the workflow
requirements and expectations.

What is the background for
this project for TVNZ?
Some of TVNZ's news production
processes haven't changed in 25 years.

What convinced you to choose DiNA
as your next newsroom solution?
When starting this project, we
were, as many other broadcasters,
in need of simplifying our workflows
and equipping our teams with tools
that require less maintenance. We
needed tools that are more efficient,
that allows for creative freedom for
our editorial teams, and that scales.
To accomplish this we looked for

Lindsay Chalmers, General Manager Production Operations and
Andrew Fernie, General Manager, Operations, News and Current Affairs, TVNZ

The TVNZ building

a vendor that is at the forefront of
cloud technology, and that also had
the experience and understanding of
traditional journalism and production
workflows.
7Mountains and their product DiNA
caught our eyes in 2019 where we
got a chance to sit down with the
team at the IBC show, to see a live
demonstration of the tool. We have
followed their projects closely since
then, with the soon to air new British
TV channel GB News, the launch of OTT
business channel ausbiz, as well as
Danish TV 2/ FYN and their transition
to a cloud based newsroom.

What were your main workflow
requirements for your newsroom?
We required a tool to allow our
journalists to plan, investigate,
collaborate and tell stories that matter
and then deliver to all platforms with
ease. We wanted to move away from
working in silos with news for web,
linear TV, social TV and more, in teams
that could not collaborate efficiently

The TVNZ newsroom

and share resources.
By choosing DiNA, we knew that we'd
end up with one tool that encompasses
the planning, creation, and publishing
of stories to linear TV, our digital
platforms and to social media.

What does your new workflow look
like for your editorial teams?
DiNA can be accessed from a web
browser from anywhere with a
connection to our network. This gives
our journalists the ability to work
from anywhere, although they will
have their base at our newsrooms in
Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Journalists working in DiNA can
plan, prepare and create content for
all programmes and platforms and
publish to linear TV via an integrated
rundown module that plays nicely
with our Mosart automation system.
From within the same story container,
they're also able to push to our digital
platforms through our CMS, and to
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and
Instagram.

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