Technical and editorial staff working on the frontline of news operations need to be able to react quickly to rapidly changing scenarios – often pushing themselves and their equipment to the limit in order to deliver reliable, high quality coverage. Rasha

If you were to take a smartphone-savvy teenager into a radio studio, it’s likely that they would question why it needed so many buttons, faders and wires. The transition to IP presents an opportunity for broadcasters to look again at how radio is made. In

The transition to IP workflows is allowing public service broadcasters to find efficiencies in delivering better content. In this episode of MediaRoad SkillByes, we meet Hugo Ortiz, who is an IP Broadcast Coach at RTBF in Belgium. Hugo believes that broad

Virtual Reality is finding a home in the traditional broadcast environment - through workflows that aid set design and provide new ways of telling stories online. In this episode of MediaRoad SkillBytes we hear from Gregg Young, who works in the Innovatio

As the broadcast industry embraces new technology, the traditional long-term career is disappearing – replaced by short-term contracts and freelance roles. Is it right for employers to turn to graduates fresh from university with relevant qualifications i

In this episode of MediaRoad SkillBytes we meet RTÉ’s Director of Transformation and Technology and acting Director of Operations and Production Services. Richard Waghorn has enjoyed a varied career - starting in the BBC and commercial radio in the UK. Af

How does a formal education in classical archeology lead to a role as Head of Metadata at Bayerischer Rundfunk? In this episode we meet Katharina Giesen, who started her career at a time when German public service broadcasting was developing its online pr

How does one of Europe's smallest broadcasters maintain a technical edge with just a small team of busy engineers? In this podcast we meet Dr. Yioula Kyriacou, Head of Engineering for Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. Yioula leads of team of broadcast and

In the second episode of MediaRoad SkillBytes we meet Judy King who is Innovation Director at BBC Monitoring, Judy heads up a small team bridging the gap between editorial and technology. She is now focusing on the challenge of combining automation and al

This is the first episode of our new podcast series, MediaRoad SkillBytes: where we're exploring changing skillsets and career paths in today's media technology environment. Our first guest is Lonard Bouchet - head of Data and Archives at the French spea