Newsroom, archive and bureaus, governed as one estate.
Production, playout, archive and bureau estates on one control plane — headquarters on-prem, cloud for burst and OTT, edge at the bureaus — with Whale AI running inside the perimeter.
Built for
- Media networks
- Broadcasters
- Newsrooms
- Archive & MAM operations
- OTT platforms
- In-perimeter
- Whale AI for newsroom and archive — no external AI exposure
- Arabic · English
- Bilingual newsroom and archive AI, fully offline where required
- Edge
- Bureaus and field sites under headquarters-grade policy
- One estate
- Production, playout, archive and OTT governed together
Regulatory reality
The regimes, and the control that answers each
Sustained cyber threat against newsrooms
What it demands
Uniform posture at headquarters, bureaus and field sites; privileged access attributable
The control that answers it
One identity fabric with least-privilege, time-bound access; continuous vulnerability scanning across every estate; Edge Agent policy at bureaus
Editorial confidentiality & source protection
What it demands
Newsroom material never reaches an external AI service
The control that answers it
Whale AI in-perimeter on the network's own model, including fully offline; every prompt and response logged and versioned
Rights, retention & archive obligations
What it demands
Archive and production assets governed with defensible retention
The control that answers it
Policy as configuration across MAM and archive estates; evidence generated continuously
Broadcast continuity
What it demands
Production and playout health visible, with ownership
The control that answers it
Unified health and events; alert routing with ownership; ServiceNow and Jira integration
Use cases
Three workflows, mapped to the modules that run them
- 01
Archive and newsroom AI inside the perimeter
Arabic–English archive search, transcription and research assistance on the network's own model, deployed in the customer's environment — including fully disconnected — with Observability watching it and Audit logging it.
- 02
Bureaus and field sites under one policy
Offline-tolerant edge estates at bureaus inherit headquarters-grade identity, policy and posture through the Edge Agent, and report into the same inventory.
- 03
Production, playout and OTT as one estate
On-premise production, cloud burst and OTT platforms discovered, governed and billed together — spend decomposed by programme, production and bureau.
Reference architecture
Governed cloud and in-perimeter AI for media networks and broadcasters
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Media & Broadcasting architecture
Governed cloud and in-perimeter AI for media networks and broadcasters
How to read it
- 1Channels & users — The consoles and portals each persona works in
- 2Digital Experience Layer — Catalog, self-service, metering and SLA per service — multi-tenant by design
- 3Unified Platform Core — Nine modules under one console, one identity, one policy and one bill
- 4Integrations — How the platform plugs into the systems the estate already runs
- 5Estates & data — Every estate managed as one, and the data stores that hold the evidence
- 6Request flow — The seven steps every call takes — identity, policy, orchestration, evidence
- 7Deployment modes — SaaS, BYOC, on-premise, sovereign air-gapped and edge — the same build
Gold-marked for Media & Broadcasting
Modules that lead
Deployment modes that fit
Plugs into
MAM & archive systems · Playout & production · ITSM & service desk · Rights & finance systems · Network IdP — SSO · API & connectors
Questions
Procurement, hosting and integration questions
01Does newsroom material ever reach an external AI service?
No. Whale AI runs inside the network's perimeter on the model the network chooses — hosted in-region, its own, or fully offline — and every prompt and response is logged and versioned.
02Which languages does the newsroom AI support?
Arabic and English were delivered for a global newsroom in Doha; other languages depend on the model the network selects.
03Which edition is this?
The Enterprise Edition, deployed on-premise or BYOC, with Sovereign Operations classes where a bureau or archive must stay disconnected.
Next step
Bring your Media & Broadcasting estate to a working session.
We connect one of your accounts read-only during the session, walk the Media & Broadcasting workflows above on your real resources, and leave you with the control mapping for your regimes.