1. Creating a Newsroom For CoolStateLA - Sepideh Nazari

2. Goal Design and implement a more efficient,more organized, and less stressful website which make the production and editing of news story “packages” in a converged, multi-media.

3. Requirements The system will allow for the ingest of virtually any kind of media asset Furthermore, when a package of news story is created on the system, it may include assets from many sources and in many formats.

4. Newsroom program would need to have the capacity to track and instantly locate any given package and its associated assets.

5. A key feature of this Newsroom should be the use of a reporter/editor hierarchy arrangement. In normal use, there would be a pool of primary users we would refer to as “reporters” or in some case “producers”. There would also be a second pool of users referred to as “Editors”. The same person may be acting as an editor for a novice reporter on one story and also be playing the role of “producer” to someone senior to him/her.

6. Through a process of designation, only more senior users of the system would be granted authority to upload (or off load) finished projects.

7. The system would require a full suite of security features.

8. The system has to be compatible with a range of platforms, operating systems, and browsers.