NewsTECHForum: Building Agility In News Production

Major technology changes to studio design and production have transformed how newscasts can be produced and how they feel to audiences. In a panel at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum conference at the New York Hilton on Dec. 12, leading news technologists will take an in-depth look at how news studio advances in video walls, augmented and extended reality are changing the fabric of newscasts themselves. And they’ll examine how dramatic leaps in field production technology are forever changing workflows and the shape and speed in which content can be generated.

Panelists are Ernie Ensign, AVP, news technology and operations, Sinclair; Steve Fastook, SVP of technical and commercial operations, CNBC; Clint Moore, director of broadcast operations, Gray Television; and Erik Smith, VP of news operations and technology, Fox Television Stations. Glen Dickson, contributing editor, TVNewsCheck, will moderate the session.

“There’s no doubt that news production has become extraordinarily more agile, and this panel will tackle that fact holistically by looking at how that’s happening both inside the studio and out in the field,” said Michael Depp, chief content officer, NewsCheckMedia, and editor, TVNewsCheck. “Steve, Ernie, Clint and Erik are right on the edge of this, pioneering the innovations that the rest of the industry will follow.”

NewsTECHForum, now in its 10^th year, is co-located with the Sports Video Group Summit. The conference’s theme for 2023 is Adapting to a Culture of Continuous Crisis.

Featured sessions are:

• Keynote: Democracy, Technology, TV Journalism and the 2024 Election
• Building the Architecture of More Collaborative Content Creation
• Harvesting the Archive for New Content and Opportunities
• Reassessing the Streaming News Content Strategy
• Adapting to a Culture of Continuous Crisis
• Chasing AI: Threatening or Enhancing the News?

Register here.