Notes from our crews and editors on shooting, cutting and delivering news video under deadline.
The News Desk collects short, practical articles from our camera operators, editors and studio team. They cover handheld technique, newsroom workflow and the small decisions that keep a bulletin on time.
How-to guide
A practical walk through framing, light, sound and file handling for short interview clips, whether recorded on location or over a remote link, so editors can use them without rework.
Read the articleBreaking News
A working list of questions to settle with a crew before a developing story goes to camera, from access and rights to turnaround, captions and who signs off the cut.
Read the articleStudio Practice
Most studio bulletins go wrong long before the red light comes on. A studio director walks through the common mistakes in set, sound, autocue and direction, and the habits that prevent them.
Read the articlePricing
A plain account of how we price the work of tidying a newsroom's editing, approval and delivery steps, and which parts of a newsroom make the job larger or smaller.
Read the articleCustomer case
Marcus runs a small regional news desk. One evening he sent us raw footage of a council meeting and needed a bulletin cut and an online version, captioned, before the morning programme.
Read the articleSeasonal advice
Mid autumn brings early dusk, wet pavements and noisy heating. Helen Marsh sets out how to plan remote and on-location interview recordings for the coming months so they still drop cleanly
Read the articleTrade terms
A trade term explained in plain words: how turnaround is counted on a breaking story, where the clock starts and stops, and what a producer should ask before agreeing a time.
Read the articleStudio News
A studio director compares a locked-off single camera with a directed multi-camera set for short bulletins and interviews, and says which one suits most news teams.
Read the articleBehind the scenes
A behind-the-scenes look at how we sit with a newsroom, trace a story from camera card to broadcast, and tidy the editing, approval and delivery steps that slow it down.
Read the articleEditing Questions
The questions we hear most from producers about editing and delivery: turnaround, caption accuracy, file formats and what we need from you before the first clip is cut.
Read the articleCompany news
A plain account of what a Remote Interview Package covers, from the booking call to the finished clip, and what producers should expect to send us and to receive back.
Read the articleField Notes
Priya Nair walks through the cameras, card routines, edit templates and review steps the crews lean on when a developing story has to reach air within hours.
Read the articleStudio Guide
A practical walk through preparing a small news studio for a bulletin recording, from the first light on the set to the last check of the autocue before the presenter sits down.
Read the articleWorkflow
Before anyone redraws your editing, approval and delivery steps, work through these questions. They show what to measure, who must agree and where a redesign usually goes wrong.
Read the articleEditing
Most late or rejected news clips fail on the same few points: captions, formats, audio and handover. Here is what goes wrong in the edit suite and how our editors avoid it.
Read the articlePricing
A plain breakdown of how we price short, well-lit interview recordings on location or by remote link, and which choices make a package cheaper or dearer.
Read the articleCustomer Case
Tom Fletcher recounts how a regional producer named Claire needed footage of a flooded road turned into a broadcast-ready package in a single night, and what the crew learned from it.
Read the articleStudio advice
Seasonal advice for bulletin and interview sets as the clocks change and the evenings close in: lighting, scheduling, presenter comfort and housekeeping that keep studio days running calmly.
Read the articleBroadcast-ready news video from Chichester: breaking story crews, studio production, remote interviews, editing and newsroom workflow support since 2014.
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