Burli handles the wide variety of data sources that constantly pour into your newsroom.
This includes newswires, audio feeds, faxes, email, web .mp3 files, XML (NewsML) feeds, RSS feeds, ftp files and much more. Reporters in the field can file by telephone, e-mail, the web or ftp and their material--text and audio--appears in the system automatically. All sources--including faxes and audio--appear right on the screen of any Burli workstation.
Burli uses network connections to link bureaus, affiliates, regional networks or reporters in the field.
Burli's Virtual Newsroom technology connects almost any Burli workstation to any other workstation, whether it's across town or across the world. Browse another newsroom's wires, audio cuts, scripts, faxes, etc. and drag them into your own work.
Or use any web browser for remote access into the newsroom. Read scripts, lookup contacts, view newsroom faxes, even grab audio cuts from the field. Or file complete news stories - with both text and audio - into the system.
Burli is built around seamlessly-integrated text and audio editors that are quick and simple to use and designed specifically for broadcast newsrooms.
Newsrooms are too often stuck with audio editors that are either clunky or cluttered with features no journalist will ever use. Burli, on the other hand, offers integrated single and multi-track audio editors designed from scratch for newsrooms. They include such power features as unlimited undo, edit preview, cross-fades, normalise, MP3 editing and sample-level zoom. And, being Burli, they're intuitive and tightly integrated with news run-downs and copy. Burli's text editor is clear, easy-to-use and full of handy short-cuts and tools journalists really use.
Burli lets your entire news crew, whether a small group or multi-office environment, easily share resources.
Virtually everything in Burli can be opened simultaneously by many users, allowing a truly collaborative news production workflow. Run-downs can be assembled by an entire team who all see changes in real-time. An instant message utility lets users chat between any number of workstations. An internal mail system lets administrators send memos to one or many of their staff. A powerful contacts database organizes the newsroom's many phone lists. A full-featured assignment manager helps co-ordinate reporters, plan assignments and facilitate group projects. .
Once a news bulletin is prepared in Burli, it can be printed, read from Burli's on-air scrolling mode or sent to a TV prompter.
Burli's radio prompter makes reading the news easier than ever. News audio appears in place in the script, the script remains editable by the news reader even during broadcast and editors can make changes to copy, order or audio as the broadcast happens - ideal for long programs or continuous news operations.
Audio is played-to-air directly from Burli. News broadcasts can be aired live or recorded for play in Burli and then seamlessly inserted into many popular automation systems.
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