Vatican: SIGNIS Services Rome (SSR) has introduced a new Reporter Kit that offers multi-media solutions for journalists.
The Catholic media group claims the kit is ideal for Catholic radio and television in Africa.
With the kit provides user-friendly tools to freelance and media journalists to help them produce content, ready to go online or for broadcast at their convenience. It is as it were a mini mobile studio.
The SIGNIS Reporter Kit facilitates the broadcast and publication of news on radio, TV, websites or social networks, Vatican Radio reported.
The Reporter Kit contains what a journalist needs to report and edit news or content on the go. A package or a whole program can be assembled while out in the field. The kit has digital audio recorders, an HD video camera, a netbook (laptop) for editing video and audio, professional headphones, USB keys and hard disk for data storage. The kit even has accessories to enable the recording of sound in a difficult acoustic environment.
The SIGNIS Reporters Kit comes in three models: First is the entry kit for audio productions, then there is the medium range kit for multi-media productions as well as the top of the range kit for professional audio and video.
SIGNIS is the World Catholic Association for Communications. It headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium but it also has a branch in Rome, Italy that offers specialized services such as the provision of equipment and training.
SIGNIS has members from over 140 countries. The aim of SIGNIS is to bring together Catholic radio, television, cinema, video, media education, Internet, and new technology professionals.
Its very diversified programs cover fields such as the promotion of films or television programs (juries at important festivals: Cannes, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Venice, Ouagadougou and Zanizibar), the creation of radio, video, and television studios, production and distribution of programs, supplying specialized equipment and training professionals.
The mission of SIGNIS is to engage with media professionals and support Catholic communicators to help transform cultures in the light of the Gospel by promoting human dignity, justice and reconciliation.