ITN has announced a partnership with a group of universities to make more than 3,000 hours of archive footage available to students online.

NewsFilm Online, which launches this week, is the result of a major programme to digitise a century of broadcast news reports and is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) – a group that supports the use of technology in education.

The new site, nfo.ac.uk, features a number of historic news clips from ITN Source – the archive news licensing service that includes material from both ITN and Reuters.