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If you ever wanted to know how news is gathered in the US particularly in large city affiliates. This is an pretty good documentary from KCAL 9 Los Angeles. They show how they created a feature of their newscasts called THE DESK. It brings a portion of the working assignment desk into the studio alongside the anchor desk and helps to cover breaking stories across the day. The BBC kinda wanted to do this with their live DTL in the newsroom. But this set up is quite fascinating. Especially how they found a way for the producers to use audio sources in the studio whilst the broadcast was occurring. But it also show how having local knowledge of their city is important. It reminds me a London Black cabbie that has knowledge and can use it help guide a person to their destination. I found it interesting, I hope you all will too. They cover two wild stories from genesis of those stories to its live completion. Just goes to show that local news in the US, actually work hard to cover really wild stories. Particularly in big cities. Again it makes me wonder about news coverage in big cities like London, Manchester and Birmingham.
Hope its not geoblocked.

www.cbsnews.com