Digital Innovators Vie For Lead In Charleston

Posted: 4/26/2012  |  By: Carol Marie Cropper | NetNewsCheck.com

Charleston may be slathered with wedding-cake antebellum mansions and simmered in Southern tradition, but its news sites are experimenting with some decidedly untraditional ways to gather news — and audience.

WCIV-TV, the Allbritton Communications-owned local ABC affiliate, has jerry-rigged an iPhone armed with a UStream app to the top of one of its metal TV light poles, and uses it to send live video from press conferences and meetings to its ABCNews4.com, said Brian Troutman, the station’s new media director. The feed also allows a reporter at the station to watch and post a quick story while the on-location reporter is still in the field, he said.