Media News - Thursday, April 09, 2009

Reuters rolls out ‘studio in a suitcase’

Journalists for Thomson Reuters are to be equipped with a portable multimedia suite that has been dubbed the agency as 'studio in a suitcase'. The lightweight and inexpensive portable studio comprises a Tandberg Edge 95 video camera, microphone, lights, tripod and monitor. Some 60 bureaux in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia will be the first to trial the kit, which allows users to connect to their nearest production centre via the web. Thomson Reuters is also distributing 100 Flip video cameras and experimenting with other news-gathering tools. One immediate use for the technology will be worldwide production of a soon-to-launch financial television service, Project Insider, aimed at 500,000 professional clients. Reuters Insider managing editor Mike Stepanovich said the agency would complement the rollout of cameras with a wider distribution of lower quality webcam capabilities. He said this would allow the company to 'reach all of our 2,700 journalists worldwide'. Professional and consumer audiences were already dealing with all forms of media, he added, with major implications for the industry. 'We need to get the skills to work in media and not just one form of media. It doesn't mean we can't specialise in writing or we can't specialise in camera work . . .But successful journalists in the future are going to have to be able to cope with a variety of media and publishing roles.' (Press Gazette)

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