22 The never ending story – the sharing television newsroom
Until a few ago journalists inside any television newsroom would work with videotape and get tense awaiting the return of the latest sound and pictures. It would come by a satellite feed or link, from a breathless producer or reporter running down a corridor, someone on a motorbike, or in the hands of a field producer. The newsroom systems now in place mean the journalist works in a seamless digital production. He or she, as a career begins, is as ambitious and yet as frail as the people who made television news on the day a man first stepped upon the Moon, which was an ambitious live TV event more than 40 years ago using the finest technology of its time. Now your phone has more ...
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