Introduction

Newsroom is a plug-in for Escenic Content Engine that provides an interface to the Avid iNEWS newsroom system. iNEWS is a broadcast newsroom system used to create, edit and manage news rundowns and control playout. The Content Engine's Newsroom plug-in allows news items created in iNEWS to be automatically imported into the Content Engine. As stories are saved in iNEWS, they automatically appear as content items in associated Escenic publications.

Assuming that the iNEWS system is fully integrated with a Escenic Viz Content Pilot system then text, video and graphics components of an iNEWS story will be transferred to the Content Engine and appear in the related publications.

The Newsroom plug-in is highly configurable. You can predefine:

• Which iNEWS stories are to be transferred to the Content Engine.

• Which Escenic content types are to be used for iNEWS stories.

• Which publication(s) iNEWS stories are to appear in.

• Which section of a publication iNEWS stories are to be added to.

• Which status (draft, published, etc.) iNEWS stories are to be assigned when they are transferred to the Content Engine.

• Which inbox and which lists iNEWS stories are to be added to.