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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 11 - Issue 9 | September 2021
InMedia
Newsroom Systems
Update
Contributing Editor David Kirk reports
on the progress in newsroom systems
in an ever-changing world...
obile devices such as the iPhone
and Android have made textbased,
television and audio news easily
and more or less freely accessible from
practically any internet-connected
location.
M
Newsprint
Television
publishers
compete with their own paper-based
titles by offering abbreviated stories
online.
broadcasters
likewise support and promote their
on-air output with online news feeds
and catch-up video feeds. Online
tools have long been commonplace
for news production with
reporters
filing stories direct from cell phones,
tablet computers and laptops.
Ongoing investment in global fibre
and satellite connectivity has made the
internet a trusted resource for news
acquisition, delivery, storage and asset
management. The following overview
looks at new products and services in
this highly competitive sector.
7Mountains' DiNA is
with
cloud-based
NRCS
a
Tom Januszewski, AP's Vice President
of Global Business Development.
Tweets from AP will be used to inform
Twitter Moments, adding context to
conversations on the social network
and
helping
users
to
understand
complex topics. "
ATG Danmon recently completed
a large-scale upgrade to the news
production and editing facilities at
the London headquarters of Alaraby
Television.
a fully
claimed
'disruptive' approach to storytelling,
story collaboration and journalistic
creativity. Introduced
for global
market in early 2020, it allows
newsroom staff to plan, share and
publish over multiple platforms within
a single user interface. DiNA integrates
with news feed providers as well
as MAM, graphics and automation
systems.
The Associated Press is working with
Twitter to add context to misleading
content and reduce the circulation of
misinformation online. " AP has a long
history of working closely with Twitter,
along with other platforms, to expand
the reach of factual journalism, " says
" Alaraby selected us to design,
engineer and integrate a complete
system from content acquisition
right through to presentation, "
says ATG Danmon Project Manager
Howard Dixon. " The front end
comprises 12 channels of news ingest
capturing to a dedicated server with
proxy file-generation capability.
This feeds through to a 75-client
news production platform with full
asset management resources, 120
terabytes of production storage and
cloud-connected
browsing.
Studio
playout is fully automated and
includes a multichannel MPEG gallery
playout server. The graphics system
provides a range of image generation
capabilities including a scrolling text
news ticker, virtual studio generation
plus a video wall feed. We were also
commissioned to upgrade eight craft
edit suites, replacing a third-party
installation with latest-generation
Avid editors, plus network switching
and
transcoding. "
" Programme
DiNA by 7Mountains
rehearsal, live presentation, post
production and playout all proceeded
as normal throughout the upgrade, "
adds ATG Danmon Managing Director
Russell PeirsonHaggar.
" Much of the
installation work was
performed at night so
that studio operation
could proceed
without disturbance.
Precautions were
also taken to
ensure Covid-19
safeguarding. "
Alaraby Television London Studio 1
Bitcentral has added support for
ad trigger insertion to its Fuel online
video platform. Cowles Broadcasting
is taking
advantage of this new
feature to expand its distribution of
local news content on the NewsON
network. NewsON is a free ad-funded
service
available on platforms such
as Amazon Fire, Apple TV and iRoku.
" Reaching audiences across multiple
platforms can be a real challenge,
and monetization adds an extra layer
of
complexity
beyond
that, "
says
Bitcentral's Greg Morrow. " This new
enhancement
solves the common
challenge in OTT streaming of
monetizing channels effectively across
disparate audiences. "
Burli's Newsroom is a set of tools
designed for radio. These are claimed
to cover every step of the news
gathering process from story ideas and
assignments through to transmission
and archiving. It handles a wide variety
of data sources including newswires,
tweets, live audio feeds, email, RSS
feeds, audio and video files, and FTP
servers. Reporters in the field can
remotely file their content.
Text and audio appear in
the system automatically.
Integrated
single-track
and multi-track audio
editors are included.
Among other features are
unlimited undo, volume
envelopes, cross-fades,
normalise, and samplelevel
zoom. Rundowns
can be assembled by an entire team
who all see changes in real time. An
instant message utility lets users chat
between any number of workstations.
An internal mail system allows
administrators to send memos to
one or many of their staff. A contacts
database organises the newsroom's
phone lists. A full-featured assignment
manager helps co-ordinate reporters,
plan assignments and facilitate group
projects. Editors can make changes to
copy order or audio as the broadcast
happens. Radio news can be shared
with radio automation systems and a
channels website's CMS. Journalists
can manually publish stories to on-line
services or have the CMS automatically
retrieve relevant data from within the
system designed to open up newsroom
workflows.
CGI's OpenMedia Infinity is a
modular newsroom computer system
which can be scaled to any size of
broadcast organisation, from a local
channels to a large network. Speaker
positions, camera movements and
related elements can be defined as
building blocks and submitted to the
appropriate automation systems. An
OMIS (OpenMedia Interface Service)
framework allows the integration of
third-party systems, including videoproduction,
automation and studio
devices. OpenMedia Infinity can be
installed on a variety of industry
standard hardware platforms or
hosted online.
Dalet Pyramid
Dalet Pyramid is a subscriptionbased
service for news production,
content management and multiplatform
distribution. It can be
deployed online, on-premises or in a
hybrid configuration.
" Tying your story line-up to a
rundown limits production workflows
and the efficiency for stories to be
delivered across platforms, " says
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