More on THV's 'Backpack Journalist'

Arkansas Business.com interviewed THV's News Direction Mark Raines about the station's Backpack Journalist position its advertising for. Below are a few quotes from the article:

> “It will allow them to get outside the Little Rock metro area and get into stories two or three hours away without them having to really worry about getting back before news time,” Raines said. “They’ll be able to dump all of their video into a laptop computer and edit a story in the laptop and then basically hit send, and it’ll come back to a server we’ll have in place this year.”

> “It’s something we’re basically kind of experimenting with here to see if it will work as well as it has in other markets,” Raines added. “It’s been done before, but not with the newer and more efficient equipment.”

Read the entire article HERE.