“and we’re buying them video cameras…”
Scott Anderson of Tribune Co. describes how the Fort Lauderdale paper covered the iPhone launch with live video using a Sprint cellphone data card:
“Live trucks? Microwave relays? Don’t need ‘em. Starbucks or another hot spot? Don’t need ‘em, either. And ultimately cell phones will be so good at video that’s all you’ll need for a live feed, period.
But for now, we plan to keep using goodies like the GoStream, SlingBox, etc., to not only go head-to-head with local broadcasters, but to blow past them. Nobody has more local reporting feet on the street than newspapers.
And we’re buying lots and lots of them video cameras.”
via Jeff Jarvis, who has also written on his Buzzmachine blog about other forms of “outsourced reporting” of the event.
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