Automation and Live Television News: Enhanced Support for a Complex Workflow

The historical role of automation in television broadcast has been to provide the componentry needed for fitting available media systems to the workflow needs of the customer. When the automation products built for transmission/production/master control applications were applied to all-digital newsrooms, they were found to be overly complex, overly expensive, and fell short of adequately addressing many important workflow needs. This paper will review workflow in digital newsrooms, examine the purpose of the other components that will be used there, consider the influences of cost on customer decision-making, then discuss the design needed by a newsroom automation system to completely satisfy the needs of this space.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2003-01

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J14125