Aligning Newsroom Technology with Story-Centric Workflows
Discover how you can empower your digital teams to break stories independent of broadcasts through centralized, story-centric newsroom technology
Discover how you can empower your digital teams to break stories independent of broadcasts through centralized, story-centric newsroom technology
The term ‘story-centric’ represents a fundamental shift in news production. Simply put, story-centric centers planning around the story itself, departing from traditional, linear news production that focuses planning on broadcast time slots and rundowns. A story-centric approach still includes linear news production, but subsumes it into a wider framework that’s also able to accommodate online,…
With increasingly fragmented audiences and the rise of highly-biased and even fake news, maintaining the integrity of journalism is more crucial than ever. This is why at Dalet, we are on a mission to empower storytellers with innovative technology solutions, so they can overcome the challenges of delivering news in the 2020s.
The New Normal for News The news industry has been through significant changes over the past century. The dominance of television news has been undeniable in the last 65 years; no other mass communication medium has effectively challenged the power of watching news on a TV screen… until recently. In 2020, a study indicated that,…
Over the past 3 decades, our philosophy when creating solutions was not just to make all our customers’ content available to everyone at once. It has always been, and remains today, about the smartest way to arrange their production and distribution environment. The 100th NAB Show was a fitting venue to unveil the developments we…
One of the biggest challenges in today’s newsrooms is enabling journalists to produce stories from anywhere. Staff in the field need to be able to work as effectively as in the newsroom, so finding the right tools to do it becomes crucial. Dalet Pyramid, our cloud-native news solution, is the outcome of years of work…
The return of the NAB Show in Las Vegas was nothing short of amazing. It was very special to be able to meet again with our customers, partners, and the media community as a whole after a two-year hiatus. Even though attendance was down by about half in comparison to pre-COVID shows, those attending were…
From inception, we, at Dalet, have been committed to improving the way media professionals create and share stories. We are constantly working with journalists, editors, producers, engineers, and technologists, to provide innovative solutions for planning, producing, and sharing news in our digital world. As a result, we have developed three solutions, powered by Dalet Pyramid,…
There is a thrill when change is coming where it is needed. While sometimes there is fear and trepidation in changing a processes that has worked for years, there is also a raw excitement in taking on an entirely different approach, and television news is no different. As long-term innovators, at Dalet we are introducing…
Before 2020, the majority of news organizations treated the cloud-based newsroom as an interesting experiment: a technology that might become important in the future, but not necessarily essential part of present-day operations. Too many unknown variables to take into account with a cloud-based newsroom existed, and if the current workflow wasn’t broke, why fix it?…
With a completely new approach to news production, Dalet Pyramid is designed to embrace change and deliver rapid, high-quality results across multiple media and news audiences. A “story first” methodology modernizes news workflows by putting stories at the heart of the operation, allowing all other production assets to be derived from a central focus on…
Change was evident once the 24-hour news cycle became the standard by which journalists reported events. Today’s cycle includes news consumption over mobile apps, social media, podcasts, streaming media, and so much more. This demand driven by digital platforms calls for a new kind of approach to journalism and content production. Back in The Days:…
Here’s the question I hear most when I speak to newsrooms: does your newsroom computer system (NRCS) support digital-first workflows for production and distribution? That’s no surprise, since the need to ramp-up digital news production is growing exponentially even as newsroom budgets continue to shrink. The early, linear, days When dedicated newsroom computer systems first…
My last article was all about how Dalet Pyramid can help journalists and newsroom managers stay ahead of the curve with wide collaboration, a 360-degree story-centric approach, and a modern, easy-to-use interface. But every person on our product team knows you don’t go very far without getting CTOs on board. Technology managers want to keep…
One of the things that has struck me over my 20-plus years at Dalet is that nobody here has ever assumed that the digital revolution is slowing down for media companies. This realization shapes our corporate strategy and has driven the development of Dalet Pyramid. At the turn of the century, everything seemed technology-driven, as…