The media industry is undergoing massive changes. Good contents are the decisive factor for success. The newsroom plays a key role here. It is important to know which technical and organisational resources publishers need to meet these challenges. We show the way forward.
IfraNewsplex comes to Europe! With IfraNewsplex running for over two successful years in the United States and attracting so many European publishers, it's no surprise that building a European training and conferencing unit was decided, one that will mirror operations in Columbia, South Carolina.more
Tomorrow’s newsroom must be different from today’s to take advantage of new technologies, to make the best use of new journalists, to support new publishing businesses and to serve the new Information Society. The Ifra Newsplex® at the University of South Carolina advanced micro-newsroom training and research facility will support Ifra members and the international news industry at large in undertaking these changes, helping them to understand and master innovative storytelling and news presentation techniques emerging from the convergence of print, broadcast and online media.
The Newsplex® will be used to educate a new generation of multi-skilled and multiple-media-minded journalists, to expand the careers of professional news managers and their staffs around the world, and to evaluate the technologies and methods with which 21st Century news organisations will work. The US$ 1.5 million facility was developed in cooperation with the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, and with support from many of the world’s leading publishers, publishing technology developers, and journalism training institutes. It opened in late 2002. Download the Newsplex® Prospectus by clicking on the download icon on top.
For more information, see the Newsplex® web site.
"Tomorrow's News" Video:
The 10-minute video, resulting from more than two years of research into issues of integrated cross-media newshandling, illustrates the kind of editorial environment and journalistic skills that will be prototyped in the advanced Newsplex® micro-newsroom.
Play video here
Video on CD-ROM
The video on CD-ROM can be requested from Ifra by email to Heike Grumann at grumann@ifra.com
Access the Convergence Monitor at
> http://www.ifra.com/newsplex-monitor
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