NBC News Buys Service That Will Let News Stations Play Videos Live From Witnesses' Cellphones
NBC News, a unit of Comcast’s NBCUniversal, has acquired Stringwire a service that will allow its news stations to live stream video content from the phones of verified citizen journalists. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Stringwire platform will the news station to recruit and direct contributors based on their location through Twitter to share videos which can be sifted through in order to share live on television. NBC has also hired on Phil Groman, the founder of Stringwire, to serve as the Product Lead for the division.
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