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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 12 - Issue 9 | September 2022
InStudio
Newsroom Systems
Contributing Editor David Kirk reports
on the latest progress in newsroom
systems in these challenging times...
T
he six months since InBroadcast
last
surveyed the Newsroom
Systems sector has seen a continuing
stream of new or augmented products
and services. A key challenge for
every broadcast news provider is to
cater for the widest possible range of
consumer content preferences, from
fast-access text to in-depth television
and radio documentaries. As in every
aspect of modern publishing, success
stems from accurate and impartial
reporting, operational efficiency and
attractive branding.
" AP's key focus for us this year is
to support our customers' transition
to
the
product
hybrid
newsroom, "
management
says
director
Brian Doyle. " We want to be able
to give newsrooms the ability
to
collaborate, communicate and
plan stories wherever they are in
the world in a secure way. " AP's
browser-based Playbook is designed
to help newsrooms
editorial coverage planning as well
as managing tasks and assignments.
The Playbook app allows
the lists to represent how the content
is to be published to the specified
integrated system. Each list can be
set to allow for daily publication
and can support the publication of
multiple editions or revisions on the
same day. From within Cast, users
can see the full context of Playbook
topics and assignments and even
make changes
to the Playbook
objects without having to switch
back to the Playbook interface. Both
systems run as a software as a cloudhosted
service with single signon
authentication.
Playbook
users
include the AP news team,
Al Jazeera Digital and the Daily
Mail Group.
CGI's OpenMedia NewsBoard
allows journalists and editorial
teams
story-centric
with their
access
from a mobile device. AP Cast, the
second AP Storytelling module to
be released, enables the curation
of content sourced from Playbook
which can then be published to
external systems via customised API
integrations. This can be used for
generating email newsletters based
on a newsroom's coverage plans;
sending ordered lists of content to a
pagination system; moving content
in bulk to a CMS, and so on. Users
add existing Playbook content to one
or more publication lists, ordering
to organise their
planning and
production processes from any
location. " Recent
include a completely
architecture plus
an
intuitive
enhancements
re-designed
UI
that is fully modular for additional
customisation and also designed
to be cloud-friendly
from the
outset, " says VP Michael Pfitzner.
" A highly configurable board and
widget structure supports complete
transparency in establishing and
maintaining dynamic collaboration
within distributed teams, allowing
them to set the system up in ways
that suit their individual workflows. "
OpenMedia NewsBoard is
by a new cloud-native ReporterApp
for Android and iOS. ReporterApp is
designed to provide the necessary
security and tools reporters need to
7Mountains' Dina Rundown
stay in contact with their newsrooms.
Its UI provides the ability
to need
to research multiple sources
including agency wire feeds, scan
events and topics, check contact
details and collaborate on content.
For radio-based
CGI's
news workflows
dira! Dimension enables
joined a standalone rundown tool
linear production. Intended
remote audio editing to take place
outside of studio environments.
7Mountains' Dina Rundown is
for
for
broadcasters wanting to transition
from NRCS hardware to a lightweight
cloud tool, it is designed to serve
as a 1-1 replacement for any
newsroom rundown application.
Dina Rundown is based on Dina,
a tool for planning, creating and
publishing news
channels
and
to multiple
for breaking
down the silos between the
newsroom, the web desk and
social media desk.
7Mountains
describes
Dina
AP Playbook Cast
Rundown as a perfect match for
broadcasters ready to move to
multi-platform news production
in the cloud.
CGI OpenMedia NewsBoard
Grass Valley's AMPP platform
allows news production teams
to collaborate on stories from
wherever they are located as
well as create multiple versions
of a story for live broadcast,
social
media, and
streaming. It supports
SRT and other streaming
protocols for contribution well as
providing live production tools.
As the video is being recorded,
any journalist with an internet
connection can access
the
file and begin editing using an
HTML5 editor. AMPP's Framelight X
has MOS
integration and allows the newsroom
to create automated workflows,
speeding up the
editing
as well as distribution to multiple
streaming platforms.
nxtedition's
newsroom system,
itself called nxtedition, streamlines
and consolidates many
elements
a news studio needs into a single
user interface. This facilitates the
planning
and
writing
of
automation of the news
and output
stories,
studio
to viewers on linear,
social and web. In a single software
environment,
as well
as
media
it provides the tools
journalists need to plan and script
their stories
management, rundown creation,
studio automation, graphics,
ingest and final
channel playout
functionality. Because it is designed
for virtualisation in the cloud and
access through web services, it is
suitable for remote production and
management, allowing journalists
to enter, modify
and
complete
story packages from anywhere and
enabling editors to work remotely.
process
support for NRCS
OTT
NDI,
http://www.inbroadcast.com https://www.cgi.com/en/brochure/openmedia/cgi-openmedia-newsboard-cross-media-planning-tool https://7mountains.com/dina-rundown https://7mountains.com/dina-rundown https://www.ap.org/media-solutions/playbook
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