While the ability of editors to identify and define news is essential, the creation of news is increasingly driven by real-time analytics, according to participants in the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit.

Leading of this segment is TVNewser editor Alex Weprin with comments by Yahoo!'s Anna Robertson, who heads original news video, Mark Larkin, Vice President of CBSNews.com, Mike Stepanovich, managing editor of Reuters Insider and Jeff Whatcott, SVP of Brightcove.

Today, AOL debuted its Real Time News, David Cohen of Webnewser reports.

Andy Plesser