News world
News World was the first ever conference and exhibition for the international broadcast news industry. The brainchild of a group of industry analysts, News World provided a unique opportunity for the world’s most important broadcasters and manufacturers to come together to discuss the issues that confronted them all.
When News World was launched in 1995, news broadcasters were on the brink of rapid and revolutionary change. A fast growing umbrella of satellites was making it increasingly possible to move news footage across the globe instantaneously – making the exchange of news an everyday occurrence and turning news editors into information commodity brokers. Concurrently, astonishing advances in camera technology and portable transmission equipment would soon allow crews to broadcast live and direct to screen – putting traditional editorial processes of checks and balances under unimaginable pressure.
These challenges, together with the looming threats and promises of the Internet, had never been debated in open forum before, and through its three-day conference and the technical exhibition which surrounded it News World brought the most senior news executives from the BBC, CNN, ITN, CBS, NBC, ABC, ZDF, NHK, Reuters, APTN and many more European and Asian broadcast organisations together to agree on the way forward.
News World was also the launch pad for an initiative to tackle what was becoming an increasingly grave problem for broadcasters – the safety of their news crews in areas of conflict. As advanced technology allowed reporters and producers to closer to the front line