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News Network International
Brings New Productions and Services to MIPTV
After more than 20 years of live news and documentary experience, News Network International, led by international journalist Dan Damon and his son Toby, is launching a new range of programmes and services for television and radio.
NNI combines a wealth of practical experience with imagination to produce high quality output on a controlled budget, making us well placed to face the challenges presented by these constrained times. We can deliver inexpensive programming without compromising on quality.
NNI was founded in Eastern Europe in 1989 by Dan and his wife Sian, covering revolutions and wars, before moving on to encompass topics as diverse as technology, the environment and music. Our new range of programmes and services:
- Finished TV programmes and series on topics including defence and war, music and technology, and values and ethics combine with live factual and post production skills to enhance broadcasters’ schedules and provide high quality output on a controlled budget. One example, Hearts and Minds, is an ongoing series of personal accounts by some of the world’s bravest counterinsurgents.
- Radio news and feature packages are available on general news and arts topics. Just one example, Neuromancer is a five part series of arts and culture reports on the visionary book by William Gibson, which predicted and influenced the networked world and computer mediated society. This series will become a TV offer in 2010.
- A new project for NNI is News Network Secure, a joint venture with Secure UK based on hard-won life experience. Hostile environment and field assignment training by a team of ex-military and war correspondent specialists will help journalists and campaign groups gather information as safely as possible in conflict zones and remote regions. NNI teams will also be available to form advance parties to prepare missions, build temporary safe havens and accompany information gatherers in-country. The first course takes place in June 2009.
Dan’s TV experience runs from war reporting for high standards clients including Sky News and ABC America to creating a multilingual newsroom for TV3 in Scandinavia. Dan’s radio work includes phone-ins, daily news programmes for BBC World Service and two years on Jazz fm. Toby’s background in finance brings management expertise that ensures projects run to time and budget.
News Network International was founded by Dan and Sian in 1989 in Budapest Hungary at the end of the Cold War that divided Europe. As revolutions came and went, to be followed by wars and nationalist conflicts, NNI recruited and trained a team from around the region, including Romanians, Albanians, Serbians, Bosnians and Hungarians, and brought in British journalists to help cover the dramas of the late 20th century. We watched dictators fall and barriers break. We filmed as countries collapsed and lives were destroyed. Our archive is also available to broadcasters.
Many of those who worked for NNI have gone on to become successful broadcasting professionals. For Dan “this series of new programmes and ventures is an opportunity to help train and encourage new generations of broadcasters and those who bring our leaders to account - and to show some fascinating ideas and dilemmas to new audiences.”
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