News Industry Text Format

File Format
Name	News Industry Text Format
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Electronic Publishing formats News Industry Text Format
MIME Type(s)	text/vnd.iptc.nitf
LoCFDD	fdd000014

News Industry Text Format (NITF) is a standard XML-based format for news articles.

It is not related to National Imagery Transmission Format.

See News media for other formats used in the news industry.

Identification

NITF uses an "<nitf>" XML element.

Specifications

• http://www.iptc.org/site/News_Exchange_Formats/NITF/Specification/

Sample files

• http://www.iptc.org/site/News_Exchange_Formats/NITF/Examples/

Links

• Wikipedia article
• IPTC NITF website