Jeff Gear This is Me

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1. 1. RTNDF: digitalupdate, Month 1999 Vol. 1 No. 1

   www.rtndf.org/resources/digita - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/19/2001   Last Visited: 1/25/2002

   "The system was born out of a need to control content coming out of the multimedia newsroom of the Chicago Tribune," says Jeff Gear, development manager for Tribune's Advanced Technology Group. The Chicago Tribune newsroom includes a video production facility run by a small staff that creates video packages and facilitates interviews with the newspaper's journalists. Gear was charged with developing a system that would give Tribune's local broadcast station, WGN-TV, and local cable news channel, CLTV News, a remote way to access the studio equipment and content packages in the downtown Chicago Tribune newsroom.
   
   What he created was a Java program that works with standard browsers through the company's existing wide-area network. "Very simply, the system allows us to go into one of our facilities and remotely control equipment or get to a piece of content on a file server," explains Gear.
   
   For instance, if the Chicago Tribune Television Group creates a package and stores it on a server, someone at CLTV can use the control system to find the piece and get access to it. Or if someone at WGN wants to interview a Tribune reporter, once the reporter is in place on the set and has a microphone on, a WGN employee can use the system to control the camera, lights and audio functions and take the video feed through the server.
   
   Saving Time and Money The system is currently in use in a limited number of Tribune facilities-Gear says that one of the biggest benefits is that the control system makes it easier to move material between facilities.

2. 2. RTNDF: digitalupdate, Month 1999 Vol. 1 No. 1

   www.rtnda.org/resources/digita - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/30/2000   Last Visited: 11/2/2002

   "The system was born out of a need to control content coming out of the multimedia newsroom of the Chicago Tribune," says Jeff Gear, development manager for Tribune's Advanced Technology Group. The Chicago Tribune newsroom includes a video production facility run by a small staff that creates video packages and facilitates interviews with the newspaper's journalists. Gear was charged with developing a system that would give Tribune's local broadcast station, WGN-TV, and local cable news channel, CLTV News, a remote way to access the studio equipment and content packages in the downtown Chicago Tribune newsroom.
   
   What he created was a Java program that works with standard browsers through the company's existing wide-area network. "Very simply, the system allows us to go into one of our facilities and remotely control equipment or get to a piece of content on a file server," explains Gear.
   
   For instance, if the Chicago Tribune Television Group creates a package and stores it on a server, someone at CLTV can use the control system to find the piece and get access to it. Or if someone at WGN wants to interview a Tribune reporter, once the reporter is in place on the set and has a microphone on, a WGN employee can use the system to control the camera, lights and audio functions and take the video feed through the server.
   
   Saving Time and Money The system is currently in use in a limited number of Tribune facilities-Gear says that one of the biggest benefits is that the control system makes it easier to move material between facilities.

3. 3. RTNDF: digitalupdate, Month 1999 Vol. 1 No. 1

   www.rtnda.com/resources/digita - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/14/2001   Last Visited: 8/7/2002

   "The system was born out of a need to control content coming out of the multimedia newsroom of the Chicago Tribune," says Jeff Gear, development manager for Tribune's Advanced Technology Group. The Chicago Tribune newsroom includes a video production facility run by a small staff that creates video packages and facilitates interviews with the newspaper's journalists. Gear was charged with developing a system that would give Tribune's local broadcast station, WGN-TV, and local cable news channel, CLTV News, a remote way to access the studio equipment and content packages in the downtown Chicago Tribune newsroom.
   
   What he created was a Java program that works with standard browsers through the company's existing wide-area network. "Very simply, the system allows us to go into one of our facilities and remotely control equipment or get to a piece of content on a file server," explains Gear.
   
   For instance, if the Chicago Tribune Television Group creates a package and stores it on a server, someone at CLTV can use the control system to find the piece and get access to it. Or if someone at WGN wants to interview a Tribune reporter, once the reporter is in place on the set and has a microphone on, a WGN employee can use the system to control the camera, lights and audio functions and take the video feed through the server.
   
   Saving Time and Money The system is currently in use in a limited number of Tribune facilities-Gear says that one of the biggest benefits is that the control system makes it easier to move material between facilities.