Avid iNEWS

The heart of newsroom production, communication, and newscast control

The iNEWS newsroom computer system is truly the heart of the newsroom. From wire ingest to story conception, this is where the spark of life occurs on every event that goes out to air during the newscast. Starting with wire service ingest and wire search capabilities, and continuing through assignment desk, story research, and newsroom communication management, news professionals and managers are keyed directly into the system from their desktops. Version 2.1 adds support for the groundbreaking new journalist tool, Avid iNEWS Instinct, the breakthrough product that provides visual storytelling capabilities to journalists at the desktop in a familiar script-based format. The Avid iNEWS Web Client, also new in version 2.1, is a browser-based, simplified front-end to the NRCS that allows journalists to create and modify stories quickly from any location. iNEWS NRCS moves the story from wire to air with unmatched accuracy, reliability, and control.

Avid iNEWS Product Brief (pdf)

Key features

• Newscast accuracy
  iNEWS brings peak performance to a newsroom staff's ability to create the content, timing and accuracy of news broadcasts quickly and reliably, and to manage news rundowns with ease and flexibility.
• Unprecedented contribution from the field
  With iNEWS Data Receiver's ability to ingest text strings from anywhere - even a journalist's PDA at a faraway courthouse-newsgathering becomes a connected, collaborative breeze. And with the new iNEWS Web Client browser-based interface, reporters logged in from remote breaking news sites can tell their stories as if they were sitting at their own desktop in the station.
• Comprehensive newsgathering
  The Data Receiver allows the NRCS to collect information from diverse sources, including serial wire feeds, telnet, email, and network shares.
• Rundown Mirroring
  Higher availability, instant monitoring and usage of rundowns from any location mean even more reliable broadcasts.