{"id":1953,"date":"2013-04-08T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2013-04-08T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T16:11:28","slug":"rt-aims-to-revolutionize-how-the-world-reports-news-with-own-video-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"RT aims to revolutionize how the world reports news with own video agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT is presenting Ruptly.tv, its own video news agency \u2013 with a difference. Not just offering live HD news streams and footage from around the globe, Ruptly will give the world\u2019s media access to stories and views mainstream news providers ignore.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now there are basically a couple of big agencies that provide the majority of news footage to international outlets, and particularly to TV channels and online platforms that cannot afford bureaus or send correspondents to every hotspot.\u00a0 As a result, viewers often see events around the globe through the eyes of these providers. In such a market there are inevitable gaps in coverage, plus the risk of bias in the eventual reportage,\u201d<\/em> says Margarita Simonyan, RT\u2019s editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow Ruptly can provide an alternative, show a different side of a story, or a story altogether missed by other sources.\u00a0 We offer a bolder, deeper perspective than the one brought to the table by the \u2018usual suspects\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The origins of the ambitious project \u2013 which launches after operating in test mode throughout winter – was the coverage of the South Ossetian conflict, involving Russia and Georgia, in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we saw in the global media was a much skewed coverage of the conflict, largely biased toward Georgia\u2019s position, dismissing Russia\u2019s and ignoring the atrocities committed by the Georgian side, which had in fact initiated the war. There were plenty of videos from Gori and Tbilisi but nothing showing Georgia\u2019s attacks on civilians in Tskhinval, nor any coverage of the plight of Ossetian refugees,\u201d<\/em> says Simonyan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had video reportage from Tskhinval, and decided to make it available to other news outlets so that they could see \u2013 and show \u2013 the other side of this war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

RUPTLY<\/a> works extensively with the international stringer network and leverages RT\u2019s global presence that counts outposts in Washington DC, London, Madrid, Damascus, Cairo, Gaza and Baghdad among its 22 bureaus.<\/p>\n

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One hundred staff have already joined Ruptly\u2019s state-of-the-art, purpose built headquarters in Berlin \u2013 a growing news hub conveniently placed for stories from either side of the globe.<\/p>\n

Unburdened with the legacy platforms of other news agencies, Ruptly will be using the Streamworks International delivery system \u2013 the most advanced in the world \u2013 to broadcast HD signal to any media, from giant billboards, to news stations, to mobile phones. Ruptly can provide five simultaneous live signals. For comparison, Associated Press, the world\u2019s biggest news agency, only has one live channel.<\/p>\n

Ruptly videos will be available both for single use and as a full subscription.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will take a few years for the revenues from the sales of video materials to cover the costs of running the new agency but the ultimate goal for Ruptly, as it has been for RT, is to provide balance in the global media coverage of the world news, and offer an alternative in a highly concentrated market of professional video footage,\u201d<\/em> says Margarita Simonyan.<\/p>\n

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