26 NEWS FOCUS Al Jazeera
t’s easy to think of Al Jazeera as a young news organisation, but the government-funded, Qatar- based news organisation is now 12 years old – and it’s already undergoing a substantial overhaul. For the past two years, Al Jazeera has been preparing for an evolution of its newsroom systems. Central to this upgrade is a thorough commitment to the cloud. This transition isn’t going to happen overnight, or even over months. The metamorphosis of a major global news agency takes careful planning, involvement from every key team and a lot of patience. The company was engaged in thorough tests and proof of concept around a number of technology options, until finally solidifying its roadmap away from its legacy infrastructure towards one built around IP and the cloud. The transition is expected to take the rest of this year, with the aim to be fully up to speed with the news systems at the beginning of 2020. “Every newsroom is built on a legacy,” explains Miljenko Logozar, Al Jazeera’s director of technology solutions and integrations. “The first TV news channels
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