Smartphone broadcasting: 5 live's Nick Garnett

Smartphones can be used to record quality audio and video, cut and file packages, broadcast live two-ways, and file text and images. Nick Garnett, Radio 5 live's reporter in Yorkshire, explains how it made a huge difference to his coverage of the Manchester riots in 2011.

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Smartphones are handy bits of kit to have when you need to broadcast from sensitive or remote locations. Nick Garnett explains how a smartphone allowed him to report quickly and safely from the scene of riots in Manchester in 2011.   

 

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