HTV News in Croatia has undergone a complete digital transformation of its newsroom over 5 years. The project involved selecting an integrated newsroom platform from Avid and implementing new technical workflows and organization. The digitization has led to an increase in the number of daily newscasts from 12 to 28. Key aspects included choosing the right technical architecture, overcoming training challenges through super users, and creating new transversal teams to improve collaboration across silos. The new digital workflows are detailed and constantly updated to reflect changes. Security of the platform is ensured through redundancy across storage, servers and power supply.
a web-based interface for journalists to plan and book unilateral links and outside broadcasts.
Portal: a web-based interface for journalists to access their personal files, search media, and prepare EDLs.
Media Browse: a web-based interface for journalists to search and browse low-resolution media.
Unity: the central high-resolution media server with its own database and search engine.
Nearchive: the nearline high-resolution media server with its own database.
Applications: includes tools like NewsCutter for editing, Quantel for graphics, Fairlight for audio mixing.
Admin: the back-end interfaces for system administrators and engineers to manage servers, storage, etc.
This document discusses different organizational models for newsrooms, including three examples. The Nordjyske Medier model in Denmark has five "media conductors", editorial departments that serve all media types, and content groups organized by subject instead of platform. The Daily Telegraph in London has eliminated platform chiefs and integrated story components from the start. USA Today creates "content rings" organized by subject with desk editors gaining authority across print, online and mobile. It also discusses new roles that have emerged in integrated newsrooms, such as newsflow editors, multiskilled journalists, and community journalism educators.
Creating a Government Brand Journalism Site Greg Licamele
This document summarizes Fairfax County Government's social media reach and engagement from fiscal years 2012-2015. It shows steady increases in Twitter impressions and Facebook reach over those years. It also compares traffic to the previous Fairfax County news website versus the new NewsCenter site launched in August 2015, showing much higher engagement for NewsCenter despite it being live for less than two months. The document emphasizes the strategy behind NewsCenter is to provide relevant, timely information for residents in an audience-focused way.
The document discusses Emory University's News Center, which was launched in 2012 as a centralized hub for news content from across Emory's institutions. It provides summaries of up to 3 sentences in length for news stories from Emory, Emory Healthcare, and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. The News Center benefits Emory by providing a single location for news, increasing exposure of stories, and allowing for a rich story format. It specifically benefits the Woodruff Health Sciences Center by giving stories wider reach, facilitating collaboration, and highlighting areas of research. Case studies demonstrate how individual stories placed on the News Center received higher viewership than they otherwise would have on separate institutional websites.
Print and beyond insights transforming the enterprise print room in the new...Roger Christiansen
Like many areas of the print industry, the traditional in-house Print Room or CRD has to move with the times to thrive and continue to provide valuable communication tools and services that their clients and organisation requires.
The growth of digital communications is reshaping the print market, and is impacting the use of print and the production methods used to deliver it.
These changes are creating opportunities for Print Rooms not only to win business from outsourced print providers but also to redefine their role within the enterprise.
The document discusses how the changing media landscape requires journalists to be more interactive and responsive through social media like Twitter. It provides tips for using tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Google to find sources, verify information, and engage with communities. Journalists must focus on starting conversations and being responsive to maintain relevance in today's media environment.
MasterCard's Jennifer Stalzer presents The Evolution of the Corporate Newsroo...Percolate
Corporate Communications is currently at the intersection of content and code. In its strategy for building its own corporate newsroom, MasterCard focused on integrating its various social channels, curating content to fuel conversations around context, and creating content with third-party validation. For Mastercard, content creation is never a “one n’ done” process, and MasterCard uses the Percolate Brew to syndicate its content around owned media, bringing new relevancy to dated stock media content.
a web-based interface for journalists to plan and book unilateral links and outside broadcasts.
Portal: a web-based interface for journalists to access their personal files, search media, and prepare EDLs.
Media Browse: a web-based interface for journalists to search and browse low-resolution media.
Unity: the central high-resolution media server with its own database and search engine.
Nearchive: the nearline high-resolution media server with its own database.
Applications: includes tools like NewsCutter for editing, Quantel for graphics, Fairlight for audio mixing.
Admin: the back-end interfaces for system administrators and engineers to manage servers, storage, etc.
This document discusses different organizational models for newsrooms, including three examples. The Nordjyske Medier model in Denmark has five "media conductors", editorial departments that serve all media types, and content groups organized by subject instead of platform. The Daily Telegraph in London has eliminated platform chiefs and integrated story components from the start. USA Today creates "content rings" organized by subject with desk editors gaining authority across print, online and mobile. It also discusses new roles that have emerged in integrated newsrooms, such as newsflow editors, multiskilled journalists, and community journalism educators.
Creating a Government Brand Journalism Site Greg Licamele
This document summarizes Fairfax County Government's social media reach and engagement from fiscal years 2012-2015. It shows steady increases in Twitter impressions and Facebook reach over those years. It also compares traffic to the previous Fairfax County news website versus the new NewsCenter site launched in August 2015, showing much higher engagement for NewsCenter despite it being live for less than two months. The document emphasizes the strategy behind NewsCenter is to provide relevant, timely information for residents in an audience-focused way.
The document discusses Emory University's News Center, which was launched in 2012 as a centralized hub for news content from across Emory's institutions. It provides summaries of up to 3 sentences in length for news stories from Emory, Emory Healthcare, and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. The News Center benefits Emory by providing a single location for news, increasing exposure of stories, and allowing for a rich story format. It specifically benefits the Woodruff Health Sciences Center by giving stories wider reach, facilitating collaboration, and highlighting areas of research. Case studies demonstrate how individual stories placed on the News Center received higher viewership than they otherwise would have on separate institutional websites.
Print and beyond insights transforming the enterprise print room in the new...Roger Christiansen
Like many areas of the print industry, the traditional in-house Print Room or CRD has to move with the times to thrive and continue to provide valuable communication tools and services that their clients and organisation requires.
The growth of digital communications is reshaping the print market, and is impacting the use of print and the production methods used to deliver it.
These changes are creating opportunities for Print Rooms not only to win business from outsourced print providers but also to redefine their role within the enterprise.
The document discusses how the changing media landscape requires journalists to be more interactive and responsive through social media like Twitter. It provides tips for using tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Google to find sources, verify information, and engage with communities. Journalists must focus on starting conversations and being responsive to maintain relevance in today's media environment.
MasterCard's Jennifer Stalzer presents The Evolution of the Corporate Newsroo...Percolate
Corporate Communications is currently at the intersection of content and code. In its strategy for building its own corporate newsroom, MasterCard focused on integrating its various social channels, curating content to fuel conversations around context, and creating content with third-party validation. For Mastercard, content creation is never a “one n’ done” process, and MasterCard uses the Percolate Brew to syndicate its content around owned media, bringing new relevancy to dated stock media content.
Newsroom of the Future - R. Sukumar, Mint at the IndiaSocial Summit 2012India Social
The document discusses the future of newsrooms and how Mint Newspaper is adapting. It saw a 35% increase in page views to its Livemint.com website on March 30th, with 24% of traffic from Facebook and Twitter and 25% of users landing directly on a specific column page. The newspaper is focusing on delivering content across multiple devices, social media engagement, advertising to amplify stories, and becoming more web-first through improvements to technology, software, processes and behaviors.
11 Tips for Building a Brand Newsroom: How the Rules of Content Marketing are...The Starr Conspiracy
This document provides 11 tips for building an effective brand newsroom based on principles of journalism. The tips include cutting out spin and being authentic, thinking like a journalist by providing value to the audience, developing personas to understand the audience perspective, taking a passionate evangelical approach to sharing your message, telling stories with a unique point of view, maintaining a consistent content cadence, being agile and topical in responding to current events, ensuring content relevance through proper timing and context, treating audiences like ongoing relationships rather than one-time transactions, keeping content concise for short attention spans, and designating a champion to lead the passion and credibility of the brand newsroom.
It's the conversation age and organisations need to focus on their fundamental communication objectives more than ever.
Content plays a central role in corporate & institutional communication strategies but organisations have not yet adapted to new needs. Newsrooms can help organisations produce the right content, for the right audience, at the right time and place.
Learn more about our newsroom and how it can help you with:
- Mastering your Content Streams
- Getting Organized (for & by) Content
- Piloting the Content &
- Producing the Content
The document outlines the key aspects of Newsroom 3.0, which provides organizations with the tools, process and support to effectively communicate in the digital age. It discusses positioning every organization as a media company that tells its story across all media in a coherent, open and responsive way. Newsroom 3.0 enables organizations to influence conversations, deeply engage stakeholders and distribute content through owned and social digital channels on a 24/7 basis. It emphasizes using an editorial strategy, content planning, social optimization and community building to maximize engagement.
The document outlines various editorial roles within a newspaper organization. The editor-in-chief or executive editor leads the team and oversees the editorial side of the newspaper. Assistant editors help the editor and may write articles. The news editor manages the newsroom and ensures all news content is produced. Special correspondents and chief reporters specialize in certain topics and oversee teams of reporters. Chief sub-editors oversee shifts at the news desk and allocate work to sub-editors who edit news items for accuracy and style.
This document describes the various sections and roles within a newspaper organization. It notes that the newsroom is the most important section, as it is responsible for preparing the newspaper. The newsroom has two main sections: reporting, where reporters gather news, and subbing, where sub-editors layout the news. It also describes the roles of the news editor, shift supervisors, proofreaders, and press staff who print and distribute the finished newspaper.
Creative Newsroom: Brand Storytelling at the Speed of SocialEdelman Digital
This document discusses the opportunities and challenges of real-time marketing in today's fast-paced, social media-driven environment. It notes that brands must create consistent, meaningful engagement with fans in order to build genuine affinity and community over the long run. The key is aligning short-term, timely messaging with a brand's core narrative. Edelman proposes a solution of bringing together real-time data/insights, design excellence, and immediate amplification to increase brand engagement through ongoing and planned creative content on social media. Case studies demonstrate how this approach has worked successfully for brands like Adobe, Captain Morgan, and Volkswagen.
This document discusses how the internet can enhance broadcast TV accessibility services. It describes how internet connectivity can improve TV visualization, add accessibility services, and enable interactive community services. While broadband internet is widely available, TV devices with internet connections still use closed proprietary systems. The HbbTV initiative aims to address this through an open standard for hybrid broadcast broadband TV. Major broadcasters support HbbTV as it meets their requirements and allows easy content generation and industry support. Examples shown include improved teletext accessibility and additional sign language services delivered over the internet to enhance broadcast TV.
This document summarizes a presentation about metadata given to the EBU. It discusses the EBU's Expert Community on Metadata (EC-M) and their work developing EBUCore, a metadata schema. It describes EBUCore and its role as the "tip of the iceberg" with more detailed metadata below. It outlines the EC-M's activities related to production, distribution, and classification metadata. Finally, it previews upcoming work to develop an EBU object model and engage with other metadata groups like IPTC and SMPTE.
TC Unterhaltungs Elektronik AG is a German company that develops software to personalize electronic program guides (EPGs) for TV viewers. Their Fernsehfee 2.0 system analyzes TV viewing habits and preferences to recommend favorite and frequently watched channels. It can also automatically change the channel during commercials and then switch back. The company was founded in 1995 to develop an advertisement blocking system and has faced legal challenges but continues to refine their software. They currently employ 26 people to monitor German TV channels and update the Fernsehfee 2.0 system, which they plan to expand internationally.
Thinking the archives of 2020: Opportunitiws, priorities, IssuesFIAT/IFTA
This document summarizes a discussion between members of broadcasting archives organizations about priorities and challenges for archives in 2020. The discussion covered many topics, including storage formats and migration, rights management, metadata automation, user interfaces, and financing models. Participants shared their individual organization's priorities, such as NHK's focus on high resolution content and rich navigation or RAI's projects to digitize archives and automate rights management. Overall, the discussion aimed to identify common issues and opportunities to develop strategies together for the future of broadcasting archives.
The document provides an overview of DR, the Danish public broadcaster. It discusses DR's transition to a fully digital production and archiving system, with a central media archive. Key points include:
- DR has implemented a digital system using various media formats and a central storage system with short and long-term storage.
- The media archive is a central resource for finding and reusing content across platforms. It contains digitized productions, items, programs and stock materials.
- DR has developed its own metadata standard to describe and allow searching of content in the archive.
Project of Digitisation of the Czech TV Archive - Martin Bouda (Czech TV, CZ)EUscreen
Presentation by Martin Bouda about the digitisation process of the Czech TV archives at the Second EUscreen International Conference on Use and Creativity, which took place at the National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, on September 15-16, 2011.
The document summarizes an international workshop on trends in regional innovation support held in Bremen in October 2000. It provides details on the workshop preparation, structure, and program, including three parallel sessions on improving technology transfer, commercializing R&D results, and supporting corporate development. Presentations in the parallel sessions covered initiatives from various European regions and countries. The workshop aimed to provide an overview of recent developments in innovation support and allow for discussion of experiences and best practices.
The document discusses the BBC Research & Development's work in developing future media technologies. Some key points include:
1) BBC R&D aims to maintain the BBC's position as a leader in broadcasting research and ensure new technologies are openly available.
2) Past achievements include pioneering digital radio and TV technologies in the 1950s-2000s.
3) Current research priorities include high quality media storage and new formats for immersive and personalized experiences.
4) The goal over the next 5 years is to help create a new "broadcasting" system based on internet protocols and more personalized media experiences.
- MT@EC is a machine translation system developed by the European Commission to provide automated translations for all 24 official EU languages.
- It was launched in 2013 to address the growing translation needs of the EU, which far exceed the translation capacity of the Commission.
- MT@EC is used both for disseminating information to understand texts in other languages, and as a tool to aid human translators in drafting translations more efficiently.
- The system continues to be improved through customization pilots with public institutions and by incorporating translator feedback to enhance quality over time.
This document provides a summary of a visit to BBC News and BBC Training in London on June 6-7, 2005. It discusses insights gained into BBC News' vision for the future and new technical tools to support strategic needs. It emphasizes the important role of training in facilitating organizational changes. Over two days, participants learned about BBC News' integrated news production system called Jupiter, technical innovations for election coverage, and training initiatives in personal digital production, local TV, and blended journalism.
The document discusses European policies for high performance computing (HPC). It notes that HPC is important for industries, sciences, and addressing societal challenges in Europe. However, Europe faces problems like fragmentation of efforts and reliance on foreign HPC components. The European Commission has proposed several actions to strengthen Europe's HPC capabilities through initiatives like doubling HPC investments, developing the HPC ecosystem, and establishing an EU-wide cloud computing strategy. If these actions are taken, Europe can better compete globally in HPC and in industries that rely on it.
The document summarizes Carl-Christian Buhr's presentation at the ITAPA conference in Bratislava on October 24, 2012 about the status of the Digital Agenda for Europe. It provides an overview of the Digital Agenda Scoreboard and progress on 101 actions. It also discusses upcoming budgets and initiatives, including the Connecting Europe Facility, Horizon 2020, and the EU's Cloud Computing Strategy. The presentation aimed to outline key priorities and next steps in building the digital single market.
1) The Digitising European Industry (DEI) strategy aims to promote digital innovation across all European industry sectors.
2) It involves several elements, including innovation hubs, platforms, skills development, and regulation.
3) Key actions include the EU Platform of National Initiatives, where countries collaborate on digital priorities, and developing a pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs.
ICAB is a fully serviced business incubator located in Brussels that provides housing and tailored services to startup companies in the information and communications technology and engineering sectors. Its purpose is to help innovative ventures become profitable and sustainable businesses by offering operational, logistic, and strategic support services. It has experienced staff and experts from business, industry, finance, public, and academic networks that work with entrepreneurs and young technology companies.
Newsroom of the Future - R. Sukumar, Mint at the IndiaSocial Summit 2012India Social
The document discusses the future of newsrooms and how Mint Newspaper is adapting. It saw a 35% increase in page views to its Livemint.com website on March 30th, with 24% of traffic from Facebook and Twitter and 25% of users landing directly on a specific column page. The newspaper is focusing on delivering content across multiple devices, social media engagement, advertising to amplify stories, and becoming more web-first through improvements to technology, software, processes and behaviors.
11 Tips for Building a Brand Newsroom: How the Rules of Content Marketing are...The Starr Conspiracy
This document provides 11 tips for building an effective brand newsroom based on principles of journalism. The tips include cutting out spin and being authentic, thinking like a journalist by providing value to the audience, developing personas to understand the audience perspective, taking a passionate evangelical approach to sharing your message, telling stories with a unique point of view, maintaining a consistent content cadence, being agile and topical in responding to current events, ensuring content relevance through proper timing and context, treating audiences like ongoing relationships rather than one-time transactions, keeping content concise for short attention spans, and designating a champion to lead the passion and credibility of the brand newsroom.
It's the conversation age and organisations need to focus on their fundamental communication objectives more than ever.
Content plays a central role in corporate & institutional communication strategies but organisations have not yet adapted to new needs. Newsrooms can help organisations produce the right content, for the right audience, at the right time and place.
Learn more about our newsroom and how it can help you with:
- Mastering your Content Streams
- Getting Organized (for & by) Content
- Piloting the Content &
- Producing the Content
The document outlines the key aspects of Newsroom 3.0, which provides organizations with the tools, process and support to effectively communicate in the digital age. It discusses positioning every organization as a media company that tells its story across all media in a coherent, open and responsive way. Newsroom 3.0 enables organizations to influence conversations, deeply engage stakeholders and distribute content through owned and social digital channels on a 24/7 basis. It emphasizes using an editorial strategy, content planning, social optimization and community building to maximize engagement.
The document outlines various editorial roles within a newspaper organization. The editor-in-chief or executive editor leads the team and oversees the editorial side of the newspaper. Assistant editors help the editor and may write articles. The news editor manages the newsroom and ensures all news content is produced. Special correspondents and chief reporters specialize in certain topics and oversee teams of reporters. Chief sub-editors oversee shifts at the news desk and allocate work to sub-editors who edit news items for accuracy and style.
This document describes the various sections and roles within a newspaper organization. It notes that the newsroom is the most important section, as it is responsible for preparing the newspaper. The newsroom has two main sections: reporting, where reporters gather news, and subbing, where sub-editors layout the news. It also describes the roles of the news editor, shift supervisors, proofreaders, and press staff who print and distribute the finished newspaper.
Creative Newsroom: Brand Storytelling at the Speed of SocialEdelman Digital
This document discusses the opportunities and challenges of real-time marketing in today's fast-paced, social media-driven environment. It notes that brands must create consistent, meaningful engagement with fans in order to build genuine affinity and community over the long run. The key is aligning short-term, timely messaging with a brand's core narrative. Edelman proposes a solution of bringing together real-time data/insights, design excellence, and immediate amplification to increase brand engagement through ongoing and planned creative content on social media. Case studies demonstrate how this approach has worked successfully for brands like Adobe, Captain Morgan, and Volkswagen.
This document discusses how the internet can enhance broadcast TV accessibility services. It describes how internet connectivity can improve TV visualization, add accessibility services, and enable interactive community services. While broadband internet is widely available, TV devices with internet connections still use closed proprietary systems. The HbbTV initiative aims to address this through an open standard for hybrid broadcast broadband TV. Major broadcasters support HbbTV as it meets their requirements and allows easy content generation and industry support. Examples shown include improved teletext accessibility and additional sign language services delivered over the internet to enhance broadcast TV.
This document summarizes a presentation about metadata given to the EBU. It discusses the EBU's Expert Community on Metadata (EC-M) and their work developing EBUCore, a metadata schema. It describes EBUCore and its role as the "tip of the iceberg" with more detailed metadata below. It outlines the EC-M's activities related to production, distribution, and classification metadata. Finally, it previews upcoming work to develop an EBU object model and engage with other metadata groups like IPTC and SMPTE.
TC Unterhaltungs Elektronik AG is a German company that develops software to personalize electronic program guides (EPGs) for TV viewers. Their Fernsehfee 2.0 system analyzes TV viewing habits and preferences to recommend favorite and frequently watched channels. It can also automatically change the channel during commercials and then switch back. The company was founded in 1995 to develop an advertisement blocking system and has faced legal challenges but continues to refine their software. They currently employ 26 people to monitor German TV channels and update the Fernsehfee 2.0 system, which they plan to expand internationally.
Thinking the archives of 2020: Opportunitiws, priorities, IssuesFIAT/IFTA
This document summarizes a discussion between members of broadcasting archives organizations about priorities and challenges for archives in 2020. The discussion covered many topics, including storage formats and migration, rights management, metadata automation, user interfaces, and financing models. Participants shared their individual organization's priorities, such as NHK's focus on high resolution content and rich navigation or RAI's projects to digitize archives and automate rights management. Overall, the discussion aimed to identify common issues and opportunities to develop strategies together for the future of broadcasting archives.
The document provides an overview of DR, the Danish public broadcaster. It discusses DR's transition to a fully digital production and archiving system, with a central media archive. Key points include:
- DR has implemented a digital system using various media formats and a central storage system with short and long-term storage.
- The media archive is a central resource for finding and reusing content across platforms. It contains digitized productions, items, programs and stock materials.
- DR has developed its own metadata standard to describe and allow searching of content in the archive.
Project of Digitisation of the Czech TV Archive - Martin Bouda (Czech TV, CZ)EUscreen
Presentation by Martin Bouda about the digitisation process of the Czech TV archives at the Second EUscreen International Conference on Use and Creativity, which took place at the National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, on September 15-16, 2011.
The document summarizes an international workshop on trends in regional innovation support held in Bremen in October 2000. It provides details on the workshop preparation, structure, and program, including three parallel sessions on improving technology transfer, commercializing R&D results, and supporting corporate development. Presentations in the parallel sessions covered initiatives from various European regions and countries. The workshop aimed to provide an overview of recent developments in innovation support and allow for discussion of experiences and best practices.
The document discusses the BBC Research & Development's work in developing future media technologies. Some key points include:
1) BBC R&D aims to maintain the BBC's position as a leader in broadcasting research and ensure new technologies are openly available.
2) Past achievements include pioneering digital radio and TV technologies in the 1950s-2000s.
3) Current research priorities include high quality media storage and new formats for immersive and personalized experiences.
4) The goal over the next 5 years is to help create a new "broadcasting" system based on internet protocols and more personalized media experiences.
- MT@EC is a machine translation system developed by the European Commission to provide automated translations for all 24 official EU languages.
- It was launched in 2013 to address the growing translation needs of the EU, which far exceed the translation capacity of the Commission.
- MT@EC is used both for disseminating information to understand texts in other languages, and as a tool to aid human translators in drafting translations more efficiently.
- The system continues to be improved through customization pilots with public institutions and by incorporating translator feedback to enhance quality over time.
This document provides a summary of a visit to BBC News and BBC Training in London on June 6-7, 2005. It discusses insights gained into BBC News' vision for the future and new technical tools to support strategic needs. It emphasizes the important role of training in facilitating organizational changes. Over two days, participants learned about BBC News' integrated news production system called Jupiter, technical innovations for election coverage, and training initiatives in personal digital production, local TV, and blended journalism.
The document discusses European policies for high performance computing (HPC). It notes that HPC is important for industries, sciences, and addressing societal challenges in Europe. However, Europe faces problems like fragmentation of efforts and reliance on foreign HPC components. The European Commission has proposed several actions to strengthen Europe's HPC capabilities through initiatives like doubling HPC investments, developing the HPC ecosystem, and establishing an EU-wide cloud computing strategy. If these actions are taken, Europe can better compete globally in HPC and in industries that rely on it.
The document summarizes Carl-Christian Buhr's presentation at the ITAPA conference in Bratislava on October 24, 2012 about the status of the Digital Agenda for Europe. It provides an overview of the Digital Agenda Scoreboard and progress on 101 actions. It also discusses upcoming budgets and initiatives, including the Connecting Europe Facility, Horizon 2020, and the EU's Cloud Computing Strategy. The presentation aimed to outline key priorities and next steps in building the digital single market.
1) The Digitising European Industry (DEI) strategy aims to promote digital innovation across all European industry sectors.
2) It involves several elements, including innovation hubs, platforms, skills development, and regulation.
3) Key actions include the EU Platform of National Initiatives, where countries collaborate on digital priorities, and developing a pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs.
ICAB is a fully serviced business incubator located in Brussels that provides housing and tailored services to startup companies in the information and communications technology and engineering sectors. Its purpose is to help innovative ventures become profitable and sustainable businesses by offering operational, logistic, and strategic support services. It has experienced staff and experts from business, industry, finance, public, and academic networks that work with entrepreneurs and young technology companies.
BBC Scotland moved from its old headquarters to a new building at Pacific Quay in 2007. The $7 year project to build the new headquarters involved a vision for an open, creative space to facilitate integrated multi-platform production. Key to the success of the project was maintaining the vision of tapeless, HD production during challenges, and gaining early involvement of production staff. While post-production integration proved difficult, the "twinned training" approach helped prepare over 1,200 staff for the transition. BBC Scotland produces news for television, radio, and online platforms from its headquarters and regional centers, with journalists able to self-edit using portable equipment.
Emerging 8K services and their applications towards 2020ITU
Emerging 8K services and their applications towards 2020
By Shuichi Aoki, Science and Technology Research Laboratories, NHK
at 2nd ITU-T Mini-Workshop on Immersive Live Experience (ILE) in 19 January 2017
Egon Verharen (NPO) @ Technology Update strategische issues EBUMedia Perspectives
The document discusses strategic technology issues according to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It provides an overview of the EBU and its role in shaping broadcast standards and addressing new technological issues. It then outlines several key issues facing the media industry as technologies change, such as new production and distribution methods. The EBU is tackling these issues through various working groups and initiatives focused on topics like network production, quality control, immersive formats, distribution methods, and security.
1) The document discusses innovations in interactive television through HbbTV by rbb Innovation Projects. It introduces HbbTV as a European standard for integrating broadcast and web content on televisions.
2) rbb Innovation Projects has developed several innovative HbbTV applications including an interactive science TV show allowing viewers to vote, interactive subtitles, and an interactive news service linking TV content to additional information on second screens.
3) The document concludes by discussing the FP7 project HBB-NEXT, which rbb Innovation Projects coordinates, and which aims to prototype novel hybrid television applications and functionalities to contribute to the successful adoption of HbbTV.
The document discusses the future of nanoelectronics in the European Union. It outlines current and future EU funding programs that support nanoelectronics research, including Horizon 2020 which proposes over 800 million euros in funding. It also discusses the need to develop a coordinated policy for key enabling technologies and determine funding allocation and public-private partnership structures going forward. Stakeholder input is requested to help develop the European Commission's vision for the sector by 2020.
Similar to 2006 EBU Training Croatian TV newsroom (20)
This document outlines the agenda for a one-day training session on using social media. The training will cover identifying the appropriate social media tools, understanding how social media can enhance organizational activities, and learning from examples of best practices. Attendees will learn the P.O.S.T. methodology for social media use and will have the opportunity to apply it to a case study on Eurovision Young Dancer. The goal is for participants to leave with the knowledge of how to effectively utilize social media for their departments.
The document summarizes a two-day master class on using social media in newsrooms. The class, hosted by the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, Switzerland, aimed to teach journalists how to build social media strategies, integrate social media into news workflows, and cover large stories using social media. The agenda included modules on social media strategy, tools like Cover It Live and Facebook Connect, ethics, and guest speakers from news organizations like NPR and NOS Netherlands.
This document outlines the schedule for a multi-day training programme taking place from June 5-7. The programme includes sessions on exploring projects, meetings with coaches, and a concluding lunch. Most sessions involve all participants and take place in room Marconi 3F, with breaks included. Individual meetings with coaches are also scheduled for each day in various rooms. On the evening of June 5th, an aperitif is planned at a nearby location.
The document summarizes the technical architecture of the VRT's Digital Media Factory, which features:
1) Work centers connected to central media storage and management, using a file-based workflow with MXF files and a loose coupling between systems.
2) A central media asset management system that manages storage, the media lifecycle, and user access to material.
3) Standardization of equipment and formats where possible, along with integration of metadata and essence between systems via an integration layer.
VRT implemented a Digital Media Factory (DMF) to transition its news production workflow from physical tapes to a fully digital and file-based system. The DMF centralized media storage and management and integrated various production tools. It allowed for easier content repurposing across media. While interoperability challenges remained, the DMF has supported fully integrated and cross-medial news production since June 2007. Future plans include expanding the system to other content areas and enhancing integrations between tools.
The document discusses the role and functions of the intake desk at VRT. It summarizes that the intake desk [1] acts as the central hub and first filter for all incoming information, [2] distributes news on a need-to-know basis after doing an initial fact check, and [3] makes the daily news calendar while also providing a one-hour faster summary of news than the Belga press agency through its single contact point.
The Flemish public broadcaster VRT has 2,648 employees, including 317 in the news department and 90 in sports. VRT's television brands have a 34.3% combined market share, while its radio channels command a 63.8% share. In 2007, VRT integrated its news, radio, television, and new media operations into a single cross-media newsroom and sports department to improve content across platforms and prepare for new technologies and media. The reorganization aimed to better position VRT for digitalization and changing audience consumption patterns.
This document discusses the VRT News Project, which aimed to restructure the newsrooms of VRT's radio, television, and online outlets. It provides reasons for the change, outlines the theoretical model of separating input and output roles, and examines tensions that arose and whether the model worked in practice. Key points included maintaining joint newsgathering but separate production, defining input as responsible for ideas and output for bulletins, and determining that while efficiencies were gained, the organization and technology changes still required improvements.
This document summarizes the evolution of VRT's news asset management systems from 1953 to 2007. It describes how the systems transitioned from paper cards and film to digital databases and web interfaces. By 2007, the systems integrated Ardome and Basis+ for unified search across descriptions and content. This provided faster access to material across media, simultaneous access, and cross-media reuse while shortening delays for archiving news content.
This document discusses strategies for managing risks associated with system outages or "black screens" when implementing new technology or workflows. It recommends:
1. Designating key users to test, configure, teach, and support the initial rollout to safeguard workflows in the early stages.
2. Building in redundancy to avoid single points of failure and monitoring for overloads.
3. Implementing new systems in standalone phases through a process of testing, user acceptance testing, dry runs, and rehearsals before going live, along with designated support during handover and implementation.
The BBC is transitioning news production to a multimedia model. Key points of the transition include:
1) Combining TV, radio, and online news teams into a single multimedia newsroom to allow for faster collaboration and decision making across platforms.
2) Streamlining operations by consolidating some TV and radio news programming and closing redundant teams and facilities.
3) Creating new multimedia teams focused on areas like the world desk, media demand, and gathering user-generated content.
This document discusses the future of public newscasting in the face of increased competition. It summarizes the past challenges faced by public news organizations from commercial competitors taking market share. To recover, a branding strategy was implemented in 1997 focusing on connecting with audiences through targeting programming, look and feel, branding and advertising. This stopped the negative trend and regained leadership by 2002. Future trends discussed include convergence, concentration, choice fragmentation and a shift of control to the public. A dual news branding strategy is proposed using a new dedicated news brand for specialists and using an existing brand as a source brand to endorse all news productions across multiple media brands.
The document discusses the transformation of news production at VRT Programme Management News. It outlines their vision to bring a cross-media news and sports offering to cope with changing consumer needs. Major challenges included implementing new digital systems and reorganizing into a single newsfloor. The approach focused on transformation management, learning and change, and traditional areas like processes, organization and technology. Lessons learned included getting early line management buy-in, clearly explaining changes, user-friendly technology, monitoring progress, realistic testing, and stabilizing after go-live.
The Pacific Quay Project provides an overview of BBC Scotland's technology strategy and services. Key points include:
1) Implementing common file-based digital production systems, integrated desktop tools, and a core digital library to support television, radio, and online production across Scotland.
2) Upgrading facilities and infrastructure to support HDTV, 5.1 surround sound, and resilient broadcast capabilities.
3) Developing end-to-end file-based workflows for content ingest, editing, publishing, and sharing media across platforms and geographic locations.
4) Standardizing on "off the shelf" technologies and integrated systems to simplify operations and support multi-platform content production.
Pacific Quay has a core network with separately routed domains for users, television playout, radio production, post production, and a digital library. The fully converged network uses common hardware and protects core broadcast functions. It has a high bandwidth 40Gbps core with edge access switches connecting 22 hub rooms. Integration of different file formats, codecs, audio formats, metadata, and protocols between real-time and non-real-time systems presents challenges that require mapping schemas and determining if coupling is direct or loose. Questions can be directed to Brendan Mallon.
The BBC Scotland digital media project was managed through strong leadership, a unified vision, and a well-resourced program office. Siemens was contracted to take on full technology delivery risk. The new facility has transformed workflows and positioned BBC Scotland well for the future. Key success factors included early business engagement, integrated networks, and constant communication. Areas for improvement include more clearly defined requirements, workflows, and decision-making processes to minimize change requests.
FRANCE24.com ranks third among international news TV websites and first on key markets such as France, Germany, and Italy according to Nielsen data. It stands among the leading news brands in the world with nearly 38,000 unique visitors. The website is the most international with 83% of its audience from outside of France. The reasons for its success include its multimedia, multilingual format across TV and websites and its use of video, interactivity and user participation.
This document provides an overview of the layout and workflow within a television newsroom and control room. It details the various areas including the news studio, control room, post-production, newsroom, and archive. Key aspects summarized are a fully IP architecture with no tape, immediate access to video files online, and flexibility to make last minute changes to broadcasts.
1. Digital newsrooms group: thematic visit
Visit to HTV News
Zagreb, Croatia, 23 -24 November 2006
Visit report
HRT joined the Digital Newsrooms group in May 2003 for the visit to BBC Kent in Tunbridge Wells. At that
time, HTV News department had just set up iNews, the News text editing system and was preparing its 2nd
call for tender for a complete Newsroom Computer System (NRCS). HRT took part in all the visits which
were organized by EBU International Training. In addition, HRT made the best of the Digital Newsrooms
group network and organized separate visits to several recently digitized TV channels which had taken part
in the visits.
How did HRT manage to revolutionize with limited financial resources the way it was making News in less 5
years? Going through all the steps from the drafting of the call for tender to the issues still at stake, such
as how to integrate regional bureaus and spread non linear production to acquisition, the thematic visit
covered all the aspects of the revolution, including:
- the choice of technical architecture and the challenging relations with the vendors,
- the key role of super users and how HTV overcame limited training resources and promoted change in
people's minds.
- the definition of the new workflows and the importance of building transversal teams to make
strong-minded individuals work together,
- the creation of a unique ingest point and the new role for archive people.
Outline
Introduction: HTV News in a nutshell
I - HTV Newsroom Digitization project
A - Chronological overview
B - Project Management approach
C - The outcome: more newscasts, more formats
II - HTV Newsroom integrated platform: the technical specificities
A - Selecting an integrator
B - An all 'Avid' platform
C - A detailed and constantly updated workflow
D - A good quality media format
E - Security issues
F - Metadata Management
G - Building the future on this platform
III - HTV Newsroom: new organization, new workflows, new jobs
A - A unique Ingest point: HTV News Media Desk
B - The key role of super users in the implementation of the digital revolution
C - New jobs and functions
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2. INTRODUCTION
HRT TV News in a nutshell
People
300 journalists:
- 140 journalists in 21 Croatian HTV regional centres and studios
- 150 journalists in Zagreb at the headquarters
- 10 foreign correspondents in offices abroad
Output
- 54 permanent shows on 2 TV channels (HRT 1 & HRT2)
- 2 main newscasts at 12:00 and 19:30
- 28 daily news broadcasts, 24 are produced digitally
Croatia TV media landscape
- 1 Public Service Broadcaster: HRT
- 2 Commercial broadcasters: RTL and NOVA
HRT Positioning
- 18 out of the 25 "most watched" programmes come from HRT,
- and 7 out of the first 10 come from the News department.
HRT "Business model"
License fee: app. 2/3 of the revenues
Commercials: app. 1/3 of the revenues
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3. I - HTV NEWSROOM DIGITIZATION PROJECT
A- Chronological overview
The complete digitization of the HTV newsroom is a 5-year long process. If one does not take into
account the purchase of the News text editing system (iNews), and the delay due to different
problems (2004), the real duration of the project is nearer to 2 years.
The following table provides a timeline and highlights the different steps of the project and the
difficulties encountered, including the time necessary to collect information, design, plan, implement
and train. It also points out to the determination which must drive the project team, the News team
and the management.
Information Implementation Training
(Look & See) (main actions)
2001 Starting point:
The HRT News "daktilobiro"
September: members of the September: the News desk team wants
Technical + Digital production to change
teams and of the News team
visit IBC in Amsterdam to look
December: 1st Call for tender for text
for the "best" newsroom
editing by journalists
system
2002 May 28: EBU visit of the Selecting Avid iNews (versus Autocue,
Regional station / News ENPS…)
Headquarters ZDF in Berlin. Setting the network for the iNews system 3-day course (9 hours) / 3
September 25-26: EBU visit of Summer 2002: Purchase of Avid iNews iNews "super-users"
the Regional station TSR in trained 80 users
In parallel, changes in architecture and
Geneva + 1st seminar on
space organisation (main Newsroom
Digital Newsrooms
moved)
2003 May 7: EBU visit of the March 20: Start of the new Newsroom
Regional station BBC Kent in with iNews
Tunbridge Wells
Sept.26: EBU visit TF1 Paris
Visiting ORF, ITN, YLE, ZDF
Berlin
December 1st: 2nd call for tender for a
Looking at the YLE and complete Newsroom Computer System
Slovenia TV calls for tender (NRCS)
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4. 2004 Mid January: Selecting Avid NRCS
Problems:
- Avid delays
- Space not available + reconstruction
- Waiting for the election of the
Programme Council and for the General
Director
- Waiting for the new News Director
Sept. 20-21: EBU visit of the
(Spring)
National station YLE24 in
Helsinki + 2nd Seminar on - The Production Technical Director left
Digital Newsrooms for RTL
December: Avid installation begins -
Newscutter for craft editors.
2005 March 10-11: EBU visit of the Spring: technical tests of the complete January: Tech.
National station France 2 in system administrators
Paris. June - last (!) week: 5-day
June 6-7: EBU visit of the July 4: launch of the 1st completely workflow training
National station BBC News in tapeless 5' Newscasts at 7.05, 8.05 and
London. 8.35 on HTV1 Training of journalists,
November 14-15: EBU visit of September 26: "Vijesti na drugom" 10- reporters, editors,
the National station DR in minute News twice a day on HTV2 continues
Copenhagen
2006 February: 15' Newscast noon and other
shorter News bulletins on HTV1 April 25-27 'Digital News
May 15: The main Newscast on HTV1 Production' training
(19.30), the most watched in Croatia, is
digitally produced and broadcast.
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5. B - Project management approach
1
A project management approach was adopted. All the tasks, means and phases were planned in a Gantt chart. A detailed written document regularly
updated was used as the "project Bible" to which everyone involved could refer.
1
"Newsroom Obrada Slike I Tona - Nadogradnja Glauni Projekt Ver. 7e - 2005"
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6. C - The outcome: more newscasts, more formats
The following table, presenting the HTV1 and HTV2 schedule (23.11.2006), illustrates the success of
the digitization of the HTV Newsroom system, with the introduction of additional newscasts or news
bulletins of different duration, and with news items inserted in the magazines. The number of
newscasts has almost doubled from what it was before the digitization.
HTV1 (Blue channel) HTV2 (Red channel)
7.05 "Good morning Croatia"
7.35 5' News
8.35
10.00 - 10.06 5' News + Weather forecast
12.00 - 12.15 15' News
13.08 - 13.57 News programme w. studio 5' News 13.25 - 13.30
discussion
15.00 - 15.10 News + Weather forecast "Croatia today" (Regional News) 15.45 – 16.00
16.36 - 17.27 News magazine "News on 2" 10' News 16.00 – 16.10
17.30 - 17.40 10' News + Weather forecast
Zagreb regional News (each 18.10 – 18.30
region has its own News)
18.30 - 18.32 Traffic News "News on 2" (Central News of 18.34 – 18.54
nd
the 2 channel) 20' News (incl.
Sports and Weather forcast)
19.30 – 19.55 25' News
19.57 – 20.00 Sports News
20.01 – 20.03 Weather forecast "News on 2" 10' News 21.00 - 23.00
21.10 – 22.00 Weekly current affairs
magazine
22.05 – 22.35 Weekly culture magazine
22.45 – 23.35 10' News followed by a studio
discussion with 5-6 guests on
the topics of the day.
23.40 – 23.45 5' Daily culture News
00.25 – 00.30 5' News of the day
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7. II - HTV NEWSROOM INTEGRATED PLATFORM: THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICITIES
A - Selecting an integrator
Why was Avid selected out of the 5 tenders received by HRT (Avid, Quantel, Silicon Graphics,
Sony, Thomson GV) ?
First, because it was the cheapest offer, and therefore had to be selected by law.
Second it was the most integrated one: the manufacturer had to integrate iNews, and the
selected company had to provide full support and responsibility for the system.
B - An all 'Avid' platform
A block diagram of the system is presented below.
o Ingest: The feeds (8xinput) or tapes (4xinput) - Betacam SX, DVCAM, Digital Betacam, IMX
2
tapes - are ingested into the Avid AirSpeed server in Broadcast quality ('Hi-Res': IMX 50 Mbit/s)
3
and into IPV SpectreView for generating Browse quality streams ('Low Res': MPEG-1 1,5 Mbit/s)
4
for Media Browse . The feeds are recorded in parallel on MPEG IMX tapes, first for backup, but
secondly because only one part of HTV production being digital (news programme) these feeds
may be also used for other programmes (sports, science, children, documentary, etc.).
5
o Central Storage: 5 MEDIArray ZX for the mirrored storage of 2 x 250 hours 'Hi-Res' (MPEG
IMX 50 Mbit/s) on a 2Gbit Ethernet storage network. In 2007 the storage capacity will be
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extended to 3 x 250 hours. Avid Unity LANshare for the mirrored storage of 1800 hours + 1500
hours 'Low-Res.' (MPEG-1 1,5 Mbit/s). on a 100 Mbit/s network. Items are kept up to 6 - 7days.
7
o News production : iNEWS system
8
o Posproduction : 6 NewsCutter Adrenaline with 2Gbit Fiber Channel network and 4+1
NewsCutter XP with 1 Gbit Ethernet network.
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o Playout: 4 AirSpace servers with 20 hours of IMX50, mirrored, on a Gigabit Ethernet network.
o Archiving: In the Central Storage a workspace of 6 hours acts as a buffer for the News items
to be archived. The News material is archived on Sony MPEG IMX tapes. It is made out of:
o 20 % = "raw" rushes (80 % of the rushes ingested are saved)
o 40 % = the best of the "rough cuts" made by the journalists
o 40 % = edited and broadcasted "packages"
2
http://www.avid.com/products/airspeed/index.asp
3
http://www.ipv.com/products.asp?Type=Servers&Product=svserver
4
http://www.avid.com/products/mediabrowse/
5
http://www.avid.com/products/mediarray/
6
http://www.avid.com/products/unitylanshare/
7
http://www.avid.com/products/inewsfamily/
8
http://www.avid.com/products/newscutter/
9
The MediaStream server (formerly a HP then Pinnacle product) is now proposed
http://www.avid.com/products/mediaStream/index.asp
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8. HTV Digital Newsroom block diagram
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9. C - A detailed and constantly updated workflow
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A general workflow diagram, with the sequence of tasks and processes, and the corresponding
responsibility, is presented below. Besides that, detailed workflows were spelled out for specific tasks. See,
for example, the written description of the EVN Capture Manager workflow below, p.17.. Periodical updates
are discussed and inserted.
10
Workflow = sequence of tasks and processes
10. D - A good quality media format
11
For storing and archiving the Sony MPEG IMX format is used. It corresponds to one of the format
recommended by the EBU for archiving. It allows to be used in other productions (magazines…) being
easily edited. The playout Avid AirSpace also supports IMX interface cards server.
E - Security issues
Special attention has been paid to security, in order to aim to "no single point of failure".
This first implies implementing a robust and secure IT architecture:
12
o Storage Disks are UnityRAID Redundant and "hot swappable".
o Mirrored Central storage of "Hi-Res" and "Low Res" material
o The storage space is segmented into different workspaces dedicated to different operations
and/or users with limited access rights.
o NewsCutters NLE have local AV memory disks.
o Dual Playout servers per control room (with RAID 3 disks architecture) and …backup VTRs with
edited items on tape.
13
o Power Supply: most servers in the system have dual power supply; Central UPS connected on
diesel generator; Local UPS per equipment rack (min. 10’ capacity).
14
o A separate LAN "TechNet" designed for the News Production and separated from the business
and office "HRTNET".
o The 12 AirSpeed ingest servers are not mirrored, but first most of the feeds are recorded in
parallel on IMX tapes (only night feeds are scheduled recorded on server only and not on tapes) and
secondly if one AirSpeed server fails its input is switch onto another one.
Besides that, the HRT technical team has conducted a risk analysis of the system and of the network,
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according to ISO 17799:2005 standard . This analysis lists the weak points of the system, the possible
failure events, the consequences, and evaluates the probability level of this failure taking place, the
probability of discovering it, and the consequences seriousness for the system. This has led to a set of
22 recommendations to the management.
11
Technical hint: the IMX format is equivalent to MPEG-2 422P@ML 50 Mbit/s, I frame-only coding
12
Avid iNEWS – Redundancy and Failover in Avid News Management Solutions. White Paper 2004
13
Uninterruptible Power Supply
14
Local Area Network
15
ISO has developed these recommendations for the information industry (not just IT, but information in general). This is
today applicable in any institution or company who needs to protect the privacy, integrity of information in their possession and
continuity of business (production). They are based on the British standard BS7799 developed by the industry (the
financial sector was the main driver).
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11. F - Metadata management
The metadata management has been recently harmonised with the naming convention Presently all
the metadata ingested in the Avid applications have to be manually copied and pasted into the
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MERIDIO fields of the Central Archive. MERIDIO is a document and records management system,
software running on the Microsoft .NET framework.
HTV News naming convention
Town Name of Name of Name of
material journalist programme
Example OS (Osijek) Vukovar Gantar HD (Hrvatska
Danas)
OS - Vukovar - Gantar - HD
G - Building the Future on this platform
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o A separate LAN "TechNet" designed for the News Production and separated from the business
and office "HRTNET".
o 2007: Connecting 8 (out 21) regional stations to the Zagreb newsroom infrastructure via optical
fibre, for direct files transfer after editing.
o Adding storage capacity.
o Going to multiplatform distribution (Web, DVB-H, mobiles…)
o Need to integrate the Archives Meridio system with iNews
o Digitizing the legacy material of the Archives... but waiting for enough money!
16
http://www.meridio.com/documents/HRTCaseStudy.pdf
17
Local Area Network
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12. III- HTV NEWSROOM: NEW ORGANIZATION, NEW WORKFLOWS, NEW JOBS
A - A unique Ingest point: HTV News Media Desk
Before
The National News Exchange ( HTV material coming from HTV regional centres and Zagreb) , the
Eurovision News Exchange and the Archives were three different departments in three different
locations;
These departments worked separately with very little insight into each other's work.;
The News material was recorded and processed in different locations: data were not transparent nor
easily accessible;
Each bit of material was only available on a specific tape and to one user only at any given moment;
The overall process was slow and lacked continuity & transparency.
Now
A unique ingest point: As a result of the digitization project, the National News Exchange ( HTV
material coming from HTV regional centres and Zagreb) , the Eurovision News Exchange and the
Archives are now integrated in a unique Ingest point - the Media Desk.
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13. All the material is gathered and saved at the same point, from which it is almost immediately
accessible for simultaneous manipulation to all the users of the Digital Newsroom System. Everyone
also has direct access to all HTV rushes;
The material is indexed following a unique naming convention . The naming convention results from
a joint effort from the part of Capture Managers, AV Archivist Managers, journalists, video editors
and news producers to agree on a simple naming system.
Tapes have not yet been completely abandoned. Tapes are still in use for back-up and library archives
What are the benefits of the Media Desk?
Professionals sitting at the Media Desk have become more knowledgeable and committed to their
jobs. They have gained an overview over all the material available for HTV News. Their job has
become more interesting;
They work as a team in a user-friendly system which they have contributed to develop;
All material is pooled in one central place and the access and use of material has been greatly
enhanced;
There is ongoing communication between the Media Desk and the overall News department;
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14. B - The key role of super users in the implementation of the digital revolution in HTV Newsroom
1/ Making the best of vendors' training courses
Due to limited financial resources available for raining, HTV resorted in a very targeted and limited manner
to the courses provided by AVID:
January 2005: 4 technical administrators; 1 IT and 1 Control Room persons attended a 2-week Unity
training course.
June 2005: "Newsroom workflow" training course
3-day Media Browse training course (6-7 participants: super users including journalists, craft editors
and technical administrators;
2-day Ingest playout training course for the users and administrator;
5-day "dry run" training course in order to enlarge the group familiar with the new workflow
3-day Media Management + Crisis management
2-day workflow management for the News team
in addition, 1 craft editor/ super user went to the AVID training centre in Pine Wood (UK) to attend a
training course
2/ Selecting, Electing & Training a team of 'Super users'
in June 2005, a group of individuals from all professional backgrounds and sectors of the newsroom
( ( including 5 journalists, 2 EVN ingest coordinators; 2 domestic coordinators, 2 archives persons and
4 craft editors) was selected to become super users. They were chosen on their multi-skilling ability,
their good knowledge of IT, their open-mindedness and their willingness to pass on their knowledge
to others.
On the last week of June, they attended a 5-day " Newsroom workflow " training course provided by
AVID in Zagreb.
Dry runs: 2 more days were dedicated to testing the system and applying all that they had learned
over the past five days.
Based on these "dry-runs", they drafted the first workflows.
On July 4, 2005, 8 days after the beginning of the AVID training course, the group broadcast their
first digitally produced Morning News programme.
3 / Disseminating the knowledge
First a list of all the people (journalists, producers, directors) in need of training was established
Super users trained them, mostly on a "one-to-one" basis, to use Media Browse
Dry runs were held every day and gradually more and more people got used to working with iNEWS
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15. 4/ Identifying and overcoming challenges
The biggest challenges were
- to make people change their old working habits
- to make them accept to go back to school, at least in their minds
- to overcome their fears of new technologies, of being left behind if they could not adjust to the
new working environment (some of them did not know how to use computers), of getting
more responsibilities and work, of failure, and ultimately of loosing their jobs as new technology
often means fewer human resources needed.
Examples
- Some journalists avoided the Media Desk: "what's the use?"
- Some producers and journalists didn't want to do rough cuts: "We don't have time for that"
- Directors felt insecure with the new way of broadcasting: "tapes are safer!" or "Production is
more complicated"
- Everyone blaming the technology when mistakes occur even though 99% of them are caused
by a human factor
- Everyone claiming "that's not in my job description"
How to overcome challenges
- by running a real PR campaign and by lobbying in the corridors,
- by demonstrating the advantages and explaining the possibilities offered by the new system,
- by being present at all times to fix mistakes and give a hand
- by holding critical conferences after each newscasts
A typical critical conference
• newscasts assessment
• Q/A sessions
• discussing and correcting the problems as
they came up
• everything written in iNEWS in a
"Problems & Workflow" document,
- by writing down detailed workflows so that everyone is aware of every part of the process
and to promote teamwork. Workflows have to be updated and changed when needed
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16. EXAMPLE OF WORKFLOW - EVN CAPTURE MANAGER
1. He records Eurovision News Exchanges via Media Browse (Browse) and in parallel to the tapes as well.
2. All the materials are recorded on Media Browse Manager 01 (MB-MANAGER01) / EBU FEED folder / CURRENT
DAY subfolder. The names of the folders are very important as they correspond to the names of the folders on
Media Manager where the high-resolution materials exist. Clips can be moved from one folder to another in
Media Browse.
2.1. Recording is executed via Media Browse Feed Capture, on CH-06 EBU (airspeed 6) and CH-08 EBU2
(airspeed 8), which are programmed only for the Permanent News Network (PNN) channel.
2.2. There are 2 types of recording: scheduled – they are run automatically (they are already pre-programmed),
and instant – which are run manually (Cue – Record).
2.3. CH-06 EBU contains a number of Scheduled Recordings in the period between 04.30 GMT and 18.30 GMT.
Each Scheduled Recording has a unique name, created according to the name of the exchange it contains and its
timing in GMT (for example: EVN 14:15 GMT – 15:00 GMT).
2.4. CH-08 EBU contains several Scheduled Recordings for the period from 20.30 GMT until 04.25 GMT. It is also
used for Instant Recordings at any given moment. Each Instant Recording is named after a type of the news item
(i.e. FLASH) and its timing in GMT.
2.5. The third channel for recording is CH-07-MR1 (airspeed 7), which is reserved for live events from the
Permanent Event Network channel.
3. All clips have to be both in Browse (low resolution) and Broadcast (high resolution) quality, which can be
checked in the Metadata Viewer for each clip.
4. If clips do not contain any news item, the CM deletes them out of Media Browse Assets and Feed Capture
windows.
5. The recordings are kept on Unity for 6 days, whereas on the tapes they are kept for 2 weeks.
6. News items which have been only recorded on the Unity are to be transferred to tape via a Newscutter. In
case the news items are present only on tape, they can be ingested from the tape-recorder via Media Browse CH-
07 MR1 to the Unity.
7. FLASH news items from night feeds must be flattened so that the administrators can delete these night feeds
from high resolution in order to save space on Unity.
8. The CM writes daily reports on the recorded news items, both in Media Browse Assets / Comments section
and iNEWS, as follows:
8.1. In Media Browse Assets, in each recorded clip’s Comments section, the following is put: the name of the
news exchange and timing in GMT, real time code (in CET) of the first key frame of each news item, name of the
item (slug), location (country, town), short description of the item.
8.2. In iNEWS, each day has an individual entry with red headlines containing the names of the news exchanges,
their timing (in GMT) and numbers of the tapes that they are recorded on. They are followed by: the name of the
item (slug) – location (country, town), short description of the item, the tape’s time code.
5/ Making professionals aware that they are part of a team
In the past, the professionals involved in the News production process did not communicate and did
not know each other. They were ganging together with their colleagues doing the same job.
The new workflow made them realize that the depend a lot on each other and they started
communicating, distributing the work and creating a chain.
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17. C - New jobs and functions
1/ Media Desk staff: what does their job consist of?
Tech info: There are 12 incoming channels going into 12 Ingest servers (4 for tapes & 8 for feeds).
The feeds are both ingested into the Avid AirSpeed server in Broadcast quality (High resolution: IMX
50 Mbit/s), and into IPV SpectreView in Browse Quality (Low resolution: MPEG-1 1,5 Mbit/s) – which
feeds Media Browse - and recorded on tapes for back up.
National News Exchange (NNE)
Capture Manager (formerly
coordinator)
• ensures the ingest of all the news items
originating from Zagreb and the 21
regional centers,
• captures the items in low resolution on
the server,
• writes comments and metadata which
makes browsing easier
The NNE capture manager is the first link on the whole news chains and is responsible for the
correct indexing of the national material on the server.
Eurovision News Exchange (EVN)
EVN Capture Manager (formerly EVN
assistant)
• captures all the EBU material for use and
archiving ( a daily average of 10hrs of
recording)
• records via Media Browse and in parallel to
the tapes.
• processes the captured material in low
resolution and controls its quality in high
resolution
The EVN capture manager constantly processes and updates the captured material for final users
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18. EVN Media journalist (formerly EVN coordinator)
• distributes hard news, feature, culture,
business, children and entertainment news
items to Eurovision Members, including
breaking news and live events
• distributes sports news and events
• now has complete control over all the
phases of making a story from chasing the
material, capturing it on the server, non-
linear editing and feeding it into Eurovision.
The EVN Media Journalist now has complete
control over all the phases of making a story
from chasing the material, capturing it on the
server, non-linear editing and feeding it into
Eurovision.
News Archives
AV archivists Manager (formerly AV
archivists)
• archives the news content valuable to be
kept in HTV News library, itself a
segment of the overall HTV library
• saves and archives the rushes from the
National Exchange; these rushes have
become one of the greatest assets of the
News Archive
Rushes are archived both on tape for HTV library , on the news server and in high resolution
for items considered important or often requested. 6 hours worth of workspace has been
reserved for what is called "Current Affairs Archives". It is constantly updated
AV Archivist managers are in charge of selecting the material for the news archives and are
responsible for uploading and updating the material
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19. 2/ Newsroom & Gallery: what has changed in their job
Journalists
What they do
Journalists give their rushes to the Media Desk
people for ingest. A few journalists have learned
to do it themselves; some are still getting away
with it...
Journalists can do rough cuts in low resolution on
their own. They edit their text using the Media
Browse software (browse and edit function and
iNews plug-in).
More and more journalists are writing down
captions in packages.
What they don't do yet
None of them writes to picture yet while preparing packages
None of them does rough audio recording yet
Producers
What they do
They have better control over the News
production process and they can view
packages from their desktop;
They can react promptly and change the
rundown in case of breaking news;
they are present in the control room,
they do the "backstage" work and have
better communication with the anchor.
Directors
What they do
• The Director is the boss (really)!
• They no longer work with tapes (only for back up)
or paper;
• They have more responsibility by having better
control during the playout. Almost everything is
done by a single push on a button.
• The playout is implemented with 4 Avid AirSpace servers with 2 outputs (one "on-air"; one for
back up); the Avid iNews ControlAir and the Avid Unity Transfer Manager.
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20. Craft editors
What they do
• Craft editors finalizes in high resolution stories
which have been rough cut by journalists in low
resolution. They use NewsCutter Adrenaline or
Newscutter XP (including 1 Newscutter XP mobile)
• They can check the rundown and edit to the text
• they can capture raw material from central storage
• they send finished items directly to the playout
server and they back up finished items on tape.
• There has not been any lay-offs and the number of craft editors has not changed. However,
craft editors have become more efficient as the number of newscasts has gone up to 24
every day.
3/ Newsroom systems administrators: a critical function
• A team of 8 administrators has been constituted: they work in shifts of 2/3 administrators. They are
available 365 days a year. They are available "on-site", in the newsroom, 20 hours/day. The
remaining 4 hours, they can be reached by phone.
• They provide first-level support and ensure the maintenance of the systems and prevent failure in
order to ensure broadcast continuity.
• They also serve as a "Help-Desk": they do provide help as soon as possible and beyond that, are
there to make people understand the purpose of technology
• Their mission is also to explore and test new technologies and equipments. They also document
changes
• In addition to this, and for about 20% of their working time, system administrators are also
responsible for Teletext servers, EBUPop/ SuperPOP server, commercial automation system
(SeaChange/Etere), SmartJog server (receiving of movies, series, documentary program and so on),
servers for panorama cameras and Technological network administration.
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