Overview
EZNews is the news production and prompting software used by the Broadcast Journalism sequence. The software is available on Studio 4F systems, vDesk, and some faculty systems. In addition, it is used in a limited capacity at Texas Student Media.
EZNews is application for Windows that runs off a network share. The virtual machine that runs EZNews for the School of Journalism has the dns name broadcast.communication.utexas.edu. As of Fall 2010, the vm is hosted in the College of Communication data center.
EZNews operation manuals can be found online at http://www.eznews.com/help/index.php
Setup | |
User Configuration
Users must be entered into EZNews manually by a designated EZNews administrator, typically the TA for the Broadcast sequence. Some Tech staff and faculty are also designated administrators and can add and edit users.
To add a user, open EZNews, choose Utilities menu, Administrative, Run EZNewsAdmin.exe EZNewsAdmin will prompt for a user name and password.
In EZNewsAdmin, click on Users in the menu bar. The User Administration window opens which allows you to create new users or edit existing ones. Add users by clicking New, then entering their UT-EID in the Login Name field. For the typical user, the password should be left blank. As long as the user logs into Windows with their UT-EID, and as long as that user is entered as an EZNews user by their UT-EID, EZNews will open without prompting for a password. | |
Troubleshooting
The Journalism license of EZNews allows for 30 workstations. It is possible to exceed that limit, typically during lab upgrades where whole groups of machines are swapped. If this happens, EZNews may fail to register new workstations. In this case, a support call must be placed with EZNews to re-register the product. There is a backup procedure and license code entry that their support technician will walk you through.
EZNews Support is at
608-785-1415