Current affairs information for the media

It is my task to describe how current affairs information is handled by the people who distribute and package it, the media themselves. (I should apologise for the use of that term, which I personally dislike, and so do most journalists and broadcasters, but we have failed to invent a better collective noun.) If there is time we might look at the librarians of the media and consider why there are not more of them, and why the tenets of formal librarianship do not always run there. I shall also be taking a look at computerised information systems, which are by no means ideal for us as yet. But these will grow side by side with conventional systems, so let us consider these first.