ABC News correspondent Wonbo Woo works alone, and is equiped with a laptop, a video camera and a cell phone.

Woo is a one-man reporter, cameraman, producer and editor.

"This new technology gives us the ability to go out in the field and broadcast live from anywhere with high-speed Internet access — wired or wireless — using equipment we'd have with us anyhow. No satellite dishes, no videophones, no bulky added equipment," Woo says. [as reported by USA Today]

Woo has been interviewed by The Star-Ledger, via NJ.com and the journalist reports: It's not glamorous work. But in doing it, Woo has become a footnote in TV news history. He's the first broadcast network correspondent with the title "wireless reporter."

In contrast to most network reporters, who work in teams or groups and use bulky cameras and satellite transmitters, the 28-year-old Bostonian and NYU graduate carries a small video camera and tripod, microphones and a laptop with editing software. He sends his work to ABC's control room on the Upper West Side of Manhattan via a wireless card installed in his laptop.

The wireless works somewhat like a radio transmitter, sending information to a nearby server that funnels it on the Internet and gets it where it needs to go.

Woo calls this line of work "one-man banding it." It's a cheaper, faster, more intimate subset of TV news, and it is becoming more popular by the year. [via EditorsWeblog]

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