NPS's Robert Smith surprised and delighted his studio engineers last May with high-fidelity sound bites from the Ground Zero celebration of Osama bin Laden's death. This post from the Nieman Journalism Lab explains how he did it. "An iPhone 4, running on Verizon’s 3G network, with a standard field mike and an adapter plugged into the headphone jack. Smith pulled off what might have required days of planning just a few months ago," writer Andrew Phelps says.
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