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What is NewsFilmOnline?

NewsFilmOnline is a rich archive of some 60,000 news clips produced by ITN and Reuters in collaboration with the British Universities Film and Video Council. High quality clips of any story  included in the NFO library can be downloaded by staff in subscribing Universities and Colleges as either Windows Media Video or Quicktime files.

Many bioethics-related stories are represented within the NFO library but this resource is not being adequately exploited as many colleagues are unaware that it exists. The purpose of this additional Bioethics in NewsFilmOnline website, therefore, is to draw attention to and review particular clips within the NFO website.

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This service is a companion to our more general Bioethicbytes website and the ITN’s wider ITNSource database (which will tell you about the transmission history of many more news stories, but does not allow downloading of the stories themselves).

About the Author

The author of this website is currently in her final year of university studying Interdisciplinary Science at the University of Leicester. Her third year project involves the development of resources for teaching ethics at a secondary or undergraduate level – and as such is currently producing and evaluating study guides focused around the pre-existing materials – news footage – available on the NFO website.

Information about accessing the video clips can be found here