UPDATE on the JPT project (February 2010):
"The BBC's Journalism Production Tools project continues to have a vital role as we transform our newsrooms across the UK and the world, although the procurement of a replacement newsroom computer system (ENPS) will now not happen before 2012.
Work will continue to 'progress' pilots, in order to put in place a series of tools that will support multimedia and multiplatform working across Journalism, whilst also working with the market so that a future procurement can deliver what we need."
Back in October 2009, Jake Fowler - who leads the BBC team designing the specification of the production tools that will equip BBC journalists in the future -explained to an audience in Cardiff some of the thinking behind JPT:
Jake Fowler talks about the new BBC journalism production tools from the BBC College of Journalism on Vimeo.
(Technical note: I shot the video with a Kodak Zi8 pocket camcorder, one of the new, affordable pieces of kit available to journalists. It was set at 720p resolution, which Kodak recommends for uploading to the web. Then I clamped the camera to a chair on the stage with a Gorillapod tripod and left it running.)
