Monday, October 1, 2012

BBC News Channel conducts live video interview over smartphone, goes where satellites can't (update with video)

BBC News Channel conducts live video interview over smartphone, goes where satellites can't (update with video)

We usually associate smartphones in news reporting with citizen journalism, not full-time journalists. However, a confluence of events has just led to the BBC's Nick Garnett becoming a pioneer for mobile broadcasting on the professional level. When a shortage of satellite trucks prevented Garnett from getting the usual video feed for the BBC News Channel, he successfully arranged the British network's first live video interview piped through a smartphone.

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