Details have been revealed of an overhaul of newsroom operations and workflow at Australia’s Nine Network. Rolling out under the label of ‘Future News’, the restructure will streamline the network’s 120 current video editing, graphics, social media management and other technology platforms down to three core platforms — Adobe Premiere Pro, the Mimir media collaboration and production platform, and the Saga story-centric news rundown and workflow tool. The latter two solutions come out of Norway’s Fonn Group.
A reported 100 different job titles will be pared down to nine core roles: story editor, digital story editor, rundown editor, chief of staff, multimedia journalist, camera editor, graphic designer, senior video editor and media enrichment technician.
Mimir is a cloud-native media production platform built for teams. Its cuts editor, Mimir Cutter, allows teams to quickly create content for multi-format publishing and quickly reframe for different outputs (9:16, 1:1, 4:3) with presets and keyframing. Mimir Cutter also allows independent control of audio with multi-track handling and clearer visibility (waveforms, level metering and keyframes). When the sequence is ready, teams can render directly from Mimir Cutter using admin-defined export presets. When a project needs full desktop finishing for colour, advanced audio mix or effects, the cut can be picked up and finished in DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Mimir also enables access to third-party AI services on the market. Users can choose which LLM, transcription, translation or recognition service to work with to generate metadata, summaries and tags. Mimir also integrates with AI-driven video discovery platforms like AWS, Google, TwelveLabs and CoActive AI that analyse footage at scale to make it searchable by what’s happening on-screen and in the audio, including who appears, what’s said, and key moments and reactions.
Mimir’s mobile app adds ingest so contributors can capture and send high-quality video directly into Mimir, shortening the time between camera and production. When using the app, uploads can continue in the background, recover from unstable connectivity and prioritise quality so teams get usable footage even when the network is not perfect.
As content arrives, a lightweight proxy is made available quickly so producers and editors can start reviewing and cutting sooner, while the full-quality master continues uploading. The result is faster time-to-air, fewer ingest bottlenecks and a wider network of reliable on-the-ground sources, including external contributors when needed.
Meanwhile, story-centric newsroom system Saga rolled out new capabilities at NAB 2026, including Live Linking, designed to remove duplicate work in rolling news and multi-show production where the same story often appears in several places at once. When a story is linked across rundowns, an update made once is reflected everywhere the linked story is used, so teams stay aligned as the story evolves. Once content has aired, that specific rundown is automatically frozen from further live updates, ensuring the integrity of the broadcast record.
The system also gives local teams the flexibility to break a story from a live link and add a local editorial twist, without impacting other rundowns. If the original central story is updated, local teams still receive notifications and can optionally accept the changes to keep their versions up to date.
Also new is Saga Organizations, designed for when the same story has to land across multiple stations and enabling coordination of an entire network in one shared system. View restrictions keep individual editorial teams focused, ensuring they see only the stories and information relevant to their specific market. It also streamlines the breaking news workflow: a story that begins as local, visible only to one market, can be easily escalated to national status, making it passively visible to all other markets without requiring journalists to search for it manually.
Additionally, a new forensic-level audit logging provides an unalterable system of record that tracks every modification across an organisation’s entire global footprint.
Saga also expanded its mobile app capabilities so producers and journalists can work away from their desks and produce updates from the field that flow back into the newsroom. Features include presenter view, story content editing, adding story notes for collaborators, and managing instance details or script editing.
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