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A MONTH IN THE LIFE OF A TELEVISION GLOBAL NEWS AGENCY
By Sarah Allen-Reading, British Universities Film & Video Council
At the end of last year the British Universities Film & Video Council launched another free audio visual resource for UK further and higher education institutions to use within their teaching, learning and research. This latest resource is entitled: UPITN – September 1973: A Month in the Life of a Global News Agency. This exciting resource offers
afford to purchase books themselves. “Now everyone can enrich their
education at a time that suits them. Our departmental purchase also means that our library, which previously spent funds purchasing 30 or more copies of first year texts, now has additional budget to buy essential specialist texts that will benefit second and third year students – it’s a ‘win win’ situation for both the students and the University.”
a rare insight into the supply chain that provided television companies with their news footage. UPITN – a major global television news agency – had an extensive network of foreign bureaux with crews filming events and people to supply broadcast news companies with newsfilm. In the 1970s, along with Visnews, it was the key player in international newsgathering, providing content that has informed our collective visual memory of that era. The new resource provides
362 stories from September 1973, which represents UPITN’s entire output for that month. This snapshot encompasses the full spectrum of content with international diplomacy, conflict
University of Bristol link up with UNIT4
The University of Bristol is to implement the UNIT4 Campus solution to deliver beter services to its staff, reduce administration overheads, and provide greater clarity on valuable data. “The University of Bristol is a
significant and complex organisation and so requires the best administrative systems to support its strategic goals,” said Andrew Nield, finance director at the University of Bristol. “Given the financial challenges
faced by the higher education sector, the efficiency and effectiveness of key processes is increasingly important.” The current systems evolved from their
various areas of focus and operation which led to duplication of data
an integrated solution. A principle Investigator for instance will be able to use the system to check on and allocate budget, view staffing levels, and receive automatic alerts. “Given we operate in such a dynamic
sector, UNIT4 Campus’ flexibility is a considerable advantage,” said Luke Taylor, assistant IT director at the University of Bristol. “Not only does it provide the rich
between core HR, finance and payroll applications. UNIT4 Campus will replace these separate systems with
functionality we require to deliver efficient and effective services, but when we need to reconfigure the solution to meet a change in circumstance, we can configure it ourselves. Critically this will result in a lower cost of ownership and faster reactions to changing strategy.”
and its resolution occupying the same space as sport, technology and fashion. Most of the footage was syndicated, with broadcast news companies selecting items and editing material to their own requirements before transmission. The films are supported by short
contextual summaries on the history of UPITN, how it operated and its role in the emergence of global news agencies. A case study on the Chile coup also provides tips on researching television news, a data visualisation and additional online resources The material is open to all
further and higher education institutions and can be accessed from the BUFVC website. This resource can add an interesting interactive visual element to a history or politics module on the coup in Chile, and provides valuable tools to enhance our understanding of news production and media history. Take a look and see how you could use this new resource in your teaching and research.
bufvc.ac.uk/upitn
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