Extending IFRAtrack for use in General Media Production

The complexity of producing a newspaper is well documented. This process has a very tight schedule involving thousands of elements linked together in a chain of activities. Attempts to supervise this process have been successful using the IFRAtrack recommendation designed for tracking activities in a newspaper environment. In this paper we extend the IFRAtrack model to the production of television news, a process which is basically very similar to newspaper production. This is a first step towards extending production tracking with IFRAtrack to general media production, such as web publications, commercial printing and radio production.