Wednesday, December 26, 2018

War games

BBC News says it's now saved £40m a year, completing Phase 1 of its plan to help the organisation balance the books. Phase 2 is to save another £40m by 2021/22 - and much of it relies on a new piece of Norwegian software called Wolftech News, planning news coverage and managing deployments.

"In ‘Phase 2’, we are aiming to move away from incremental 'department by department' targets to a more strategic approach. We will transform how our content, systems and processes work across all of News. This means looking again at what and just how much content we produce really resonates with our audiences." 

The developers at Wolftech are in no doubt that it's the dog's bollocks. "Wolftech News is a tool that truly stimulates creativity and collaboration. It gives both executives and journalists the best possible solution to work efficiently, manage stories and deliver content to multi-platform publishing."

Armchair generals in Newsgathering get to play 'News War Room" - "The map is central in locating stories, personnel and other resources, and shows real time map data through GPS tracking. This way you can find the nearest resources and respond swiftly to an event, while the distance and arrival time to any position is automatically calculcated. By choosing the closest resource to respond to a news event, you have a significant advantage in winning the news battle!"

1 comment:

  1. "...you can find the nearest resources and respond swiftly to an event, while the distance and arrival time to any position is automatically calculcated... "

    Sounds just like Uber

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