ITN digitizes broadcasts for education site
By Alexandra Zeumer, Friday 10 October 2008 at 19:36 :: Training & Education :: #2432 :: rss
UK television station ITN (Independent Television News) will collaborate with a group of universities as part of a programme to digitise a century of broadcast news reports, making more than 3,000 hours of archived footage available online to students, Press Gazette reported Friday.
Nfo.ac.uk, the new site, offers historic news clips from ITN sources, the archive news licensing service that provides content from ITN and Reuters. NewsFilm Online is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
"The NewsFilm initiative is yet another example of the rapidly expanding use of video content at all levels of education," said Mark Wood, ITN's chief executive, according to Press Gazette. ITN has been moving into the education sector for years, and this latest effort is in addition to its footage offerings for Teachers TV and is holdings in digital education firm Espresso Education.
News clips include famous footage, such as the 1969 moon landing, the funeral of Englands' King Edward VII in 1910 and reports on Princess Diana's death in 1997.
Although ITN has licensing deals with Granada, Channel 4, Fox News and Setanta, news clips from those outlets not be available on NewsFilm, Press Gazette reported.
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