Channel 4 newsroom reaches halfway stage of integration

Laura Oliver — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:46:00 +0000

Channel 4 news has reached the halfway stage in its plans to integrate online and broadcast operations, according to an email update from More4 news presenter Kylie Morris.

In the daily Snowmail news bulletin, Morris says the programme has ‘moved into half a new newsroom with completely new technology’ – something that seems to be ruffling a few feathers, if you read the full text of the email announcement below.

BRAVE NEWS WORLD (DIGITAL VERSION)
I’m going to let you into a small secret today, but an interesting one. This is a milestone in modern television news production. We have moved into half a new newsroom with completely new technology. There’s no paper, there’s no tangible video or film. Everything is digital. And those of us who were mad in the analogue age are now completely crazy in the digital follow-up.

Perhaps I should have made that a singular observation. The potential is fantastic – instant everything and instantly edited everything (perhaps I exaggerate a little). But the human capacity to keep up with it all and to ensure that the journalism does too – that is the real issue. You won’t notice any difference – well, not unless the entire thing blows up and blue smoke starts coming out of my ears. But we certainly hope that we will be able to provide you with an even better Channel 4 News than heretofore. The whole process of change will not be completed until well into April.

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