Media Engineering Careers
Live & Studio Production Engineer
Systems Design Engineer
Software Developer
First Responder
Integration Engineer
Some of these jobs are combined in small organization
Some are further subdivided in others
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production engineer
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Live News Production Engineering

Live News Production Engineering
News Room Computer Systems (NRCS) is at the heart of live broadcast news operations.
Augments content search and discovery with contextual content recommendations to matches editorial assignments.
Social media framework managing content curation, publishing, research, and trend analysis
3-D graphic designers create graphics templates used in live and post-produced media production. The software interface typically includes a timeline, objects editor and real-time preview
To shorten the learning curve, the graphics software interface must be intuitive. A designer can learn to build complex animations on a timeline. On-air playout triggered by commands issued by the production automation system
Many broadcasters create multi-lingual programs for multiple channels for distribution and cloud-based delivery. Operators enter text information, the ML translators generate alternative languages without human intervention
Tickers and crawls elements use the same elements configured with other graphics. XML, spreadsheets, SQL and text files populate the ticker and crawl placeholders.