The changing role of the anchor and other presenters, the rise of investigative reporting and explainer stories, augmented reality and video walls: all contribute to reinventing the way news is packaged and presented for a multimedia, personalized world. Reinventing News Presentation and Presenters in a Multimedia Ecosystem, a panel at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum on Dec. 13, will look at how leading futurists are shaping these changes and how technologists and technology are powering new approaches.
Panelists are Christian Bryant, anchor of Newsy/Scripps News’ In the Loop; Nora Zimmett, president of news and original series, The Weather Channel; Jonathan Saupe, host/producer/director of This.Is.Now at Gray Television’s Hawaii News Now; and Barry Nash, talent coach, Barry Nash & Co. TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp will moderate the 2 p.m. panel at the New York Hilton.
“This discussion will tease out two of the most important strands of TV news’ reinvention – the news presenter’s role and the rapid advancements in presentation technology, along with viewers’ evolving expectations of each,” Depp said. “Christian is carving out a singular identity for himself as an anchor at Scripps News. Jonathan is creating a whole new type of program at Hawaii News Now, where his work has already been recognized with a Murrow Award. And Nora is overseeing some of the most dramatic advances in augmented reality today at The Weather Channel, revolutionizing the way weather and climate are presented.”
Nash will present new original research, commissioned by FX Design Group, to study the impact on-set technologies have on viewer perceptions of newscasts and newscasters. The study features head-to-head comparisons of viewer reactions to the use of traditional monitors, touch screens, 3×3 and 3×6 arrays, large and seamless LED arrays and AR/VR sets and graphics. Viewers also shared their opinions on the authoritativeness of anchors who stand compared with that of anchors who sit behind a desk.
NewsTECHForum’s theme for 2022 is Reimagining the News and How It’s Made, and panels include Blowing Up the Newscast in Order to Save It; Creating More Content For A Multimedia Audience; Building Tomorrow’s News Studio & Workflows; Field and Remote Production’s Multiplying Options and the Quest for More Stories; and New Frontiers in News Production. The keynote interview is Radical Moves: Inside CBC’s Reinvention of TV News. The event is co-located with the Sports Video Group Summit.
Register here for NewsTECHForum.
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