In 2007, Current SVP Jason Meil assembled a small team of Erik Nordby, Phil Stuart, and myself to make a news program that was unlike any other. Here were the goals.

- make Current TV more current with lots of news break-ins

- encourage/showcase user particiaption oppurtunities

- highlight current.com

- be fast, informative, and compelling

- look entirley new

- be inexpensive

To us, the task seemed impossible but we knew it would be cool if we could pull it off so we called the project "Operation Flying Car" and got to work.

Current:News was one of the biggest projects I got to work on as a Producer for Current TV. I spent over eight months creating, testing, and piloting the world's first cross-platform, open-sourced, user-generated newscast.

Every hour, the most poopular news stories on current.com would be packaged as a 2-minute on-air module, hosted by a robot named Vicky. This was produced every hour in both the US and the UK - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To learn more about the Current News and see how much Current liked it watch this video.

I was integral in the hiring and training of producers in the UK while coordinating and communicating with the US team to make sure this one million dollar a year product launched succesfully for the channel.

Current:News was tremendously popular on curent.com, boosting participation by creating a fresh, new homepage always up to date on the latest news stories. It also opened up the network to innovative ways to connect the Internet with broadcast television

Current News Tongiht
hosted by Zadi Diaz
Half Hour Show
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