1. The intake desk
Jan Van Dam
December 13th 2007

2. We try to be
 an internal press agency
th central turntable for information
the t l t t bl f i f ti
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3. What we do!
We are the first filter for incoming information
We dispatch the information on a need to know
base
We do a first check on incoming news
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4. Bron-vrt or “source vrt”
what’s the content?
 Automatically: mails from correspondents.
correspondents
 News from correspondents, spokespeople, etc.
 News from own reporters
 News from the regional news desks
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5. Bron-vrt or “source vrt”
what’s the content?
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6. Bron-vrt or “source vrt”
what’s the content?
 Interesting press releases
 Extended daily press review
 Summary of the radio news on RTBF and Q – music
 Summary of the VTM and RTBF television news
 Summary of interesting items on internet – sites
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7. Advantages:
Correspondents journalists “in the field”,
Correspondents, in field
spokespeople only have to call once
Double check: yes – same check twice: no
We’re faster – about one hour faster than the
Belga press agency
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8. Last but not least: we make the news calendar
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9. One mail address: nieuws@vrt.be
One phone number: 6666
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