Newsroom automation embraces 'citizen journalism': Richard Dean describes how file-based newsrooms are engendering a new relationship with viewers.(technology focus)

The shift to file-based operation has gathered momentum to such a degree in the last twelve months that it is now the new orthodoxy, especially in news. It not only offers savings in efficiency compared to tape, but also an unprecedented agility in delivering to different media platforms--such as mobile handsets and IPTV (internet protocol TV) broadband--in addition to conventional broadcast receivers.

What has happened since however is that viewers now have cameras offering close to professional quality--hardly surprising since the DV cameras now popular with a multiplying range ...

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