I was referring to a internal system which reporters and producers share which doesn't have a public feed.
If you watch some news reports, you'll notice a bunch of people at their desks with a small screen next to their larger monitors. That smaller screen is something like an IRC chat which is used to coordinate assets between reporters and producers.
http://radio.foxnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/FNCNewsr...
This is from fox news - notice those small monitors that look out of place.
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This is from CNN, notice that most monitors have CNN as their screen saver while some, with no one sitting next to them, have block boxes.
I can't find the quote now but it was from an editor of a news magazine who said something like: If you didn't read the news for a whole year, away from civilization, you probably wouldn't miss anything very important.