Identify a Story as Breaking News

When breaking news happens you can identify a Broadcast story as “Breaking News” and quickly inform all the users on an Inception Server about the story. Inception uses the built-in messaging system to inform users about “Breaking News” stories. After a story is no longer breaking news, you can cancel the “Breaking News” notification for the story.

You can only change the “Breaking News” status for unpublished stories or on-air published stories.

To identify a story as breaking news

1.In the Story Editor, open an unpublish or on-air Broadcast story to identify as “Breaking News”.

The selected story opens in the Story Editor.

2.Click or tap the  Notify as Breaking Story icon.

Inception identifies the current story as “Breaking News” in the following ways:

•The Story Editor  Notify as Breaking Story icon changes to the  Cancel Breaking Story icon.

•A check mark displays in the Breaking News column of the Story Browser panel.

•Every user working on an Inception Server receives a BREAKING STORY ALERT in the status bar at the bottom of their Inception window.

3.To cancel the “Breaking News” notification for the current story, click or tap the  Cancel Breaking Story icon. Only the story owner can cancel the “Breaking News” notification for a story.

Inception cancels the “Breaking News” notification for the current story as follows:

•The Story Editor  Cancel Breaking Story icon changes to the  Notify as Breaking Story icon.

•The Breaking News column in the Story Browser panel clears.

•Every user working on an Inception Server receives a CANCELLED BREAKING STORY ALERT in the status bar at the bottom of their Inception window.

For More Information on...

•about Inception messaging, refer to the chapter Messaging.