01/06/2009
WTSP-TV Uses Skype for Live Shot
From: Al Tompkins, Poynter.org Monday morning, WTSP-TV anchor/reporter Janie Porter was on TV, reporting live from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on the run-up to this week’s national college football championship game. She didn’t have a big live truck accompanying her, or an engineer tuning in a shot or a photojournalist standing behind the camera and setting up lights. Porter set up her own camera, opened her laptop, connected the camera to…