News Broadcasting
NBC acquires Stringwire live video service
NEW DELHI: NBC News has acquired the user-generated live video service Stringwire as part of an effort to strengthen its newsgathering efforts.
As part of the deal it has also hired Stringwire founder Phil Groman, who will join NBC News as product lead and work out of the NBC News Digital Group’s San Francisco office. Other terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
“Stringwire is at the leading edge of user-generated video products, with immediate value to our on-air and digital businesses,” explained NBC News senior VP and chief digital officer Vivian Schiller in a statement announcing the deal. “Long-term, we think there is great commercial potential.”
NBC News believes that Stringwire’s technology will provide its TV and digital platforms with new tools for newsgathering and for using eyewitness user-generated video content.
Stringwire allows news organisations to request video from a network of verified contributors with connected mobile devices capable of streaming video across the globe. For breaking news and stories, Stringwire has the ability to recruit and direct contributors based on geographical location via Twitter and then to instantly access their live footage.
News Broadcasting
Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
