Sunday, May 15, 2011

Wall Street Journal Deploying iPhone 4 Globally for News Gathering and Live Streaming

BeetTV reporting:
The Wall Street Journal is training its print reporters to use the iPhone 4 for video news gathering and live streaming via Skype Video, says Kevin Delaney, Managing Editor of the WSJ.com
After deploying Sony camcorders and Kodak pocket cameras, the Journal has settled on the iPhone 4 as the device of choice for field reporting, he says in this interview with Beet.TV.  Some reporters are using an external mics, he told me.
The iPhone is in the hands of about two dozen reporters with more to be provided to many of 2000 Journal and Dow Jones newswire staffers around the world, he says.
In February, we reported that The New York Times had begun to use the iPhone 4 for video reporting.
http://www.beet.tv/2011/05/wsjiphone.html

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