NBC News Sees The Future In VR

Jan 25, 2018 | TVNewsCheck | Comments (1)

The future of video at NBC News isn’t at 30 Rockefeller Plaza — it’s at a co-working space off Union Square. NBC Left Field, a 12-person experimental video unit, launched last July with a simple but strategically vital mandate: to experiment with new ways of reporting, producing, and delivering video news, with a special focus on the habits and preferences of younger news consumers. It’s one part digital video unit, one part emerging technology incubator.

This article was originally posted on niemanlab.org

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Cheryl Thorne

Jan 26, 2018 at 6:54 am

Hopefully, this technology can replace all the pathetic anchors and reporters…Mathews,Todd, Madow..Etc…Etc…

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