Scoop Newsroom Products

Your newsroom is likely to be a busy place. Unlike programming, traffic or even in the studios, the news is never complete and the pressure never lets up. That is why we at P Squared have worked hard with news teams around the country to develop Scoop.

Scoop is split in to two separate applications, one designed to capture and gather text and audio data from a broad range of sources, the other designed to allow journalists to take the raw information, form it in to whole stories and news breaks, present it on air and even publish it to the web.

Scoop Capture - The job of Scoop Capture is to capture and sort text and audio data from a broad range of sources. Able to capture text from RS232, file and web sources, Scoop Capture categorises the incoming stories (either based on the news service's own categories or by watching for 'catch' words to aid categorisation) and check them for key words that may be important to your station. Scoop Capture also maintains your stations news database, automatically removing expired stories and streamlining the news content database for optimal performance.

Scoop Capture can gather text and audio from a range of popular sources include (but not limited to):

• IRN - Audio & Text

• Sky News - Text (& Audio pending)

• PA - Text

• INN - File Based Audio & Text

Scoop Capture can also be customised to suit your needs so please feel free to contact sales@psquared.net for more details.

Scoop Edit - Scoop Edit is used browse and edit the audio and text stories in your news database and also to create new stories from scratch. The integrated audio editor allows you to record and edit audio, attach it to text stories. The competed stories can be arranged in to bulletins ready for reading 'live on air' with Scoop Edit displaying scripts on screen and cueing the audio for you automatically. In addition, you can also publish your completed news bulletins directly to your stations web site creating a locally focused news portal without adding to your journalists workload.

In addition to managing news stories and audio cuts, Scoop Edit also includes a powerful but intuitive contacts database and web resource database allowing your journalists to manage all aspects of the newsroom from a single application.