Post Streams Pub Feature Live Online

The Lancashire Evening Post streamed live video using a mobile phone last week in a first for the newspaper.

Journalists went to a Preston pub to shoot footage for their feature examining the state of the pub industry.

The video was accompanied on the site by a live blog which enabled visitors to put their questions to the landlord.

Prior to filming the feature, digital editor Martin Hamer told Journalism.co.uk he hoped the live video would provide online users with a different perspective on the story.

He said: “We’re acting as the eyes and ears of the public and offering them a window into that pub, as if they’re there.

“They can ask questions, they can get involved - the only thing they can’t do is order a pint and drink it.”

Hamer and the LEP team used Qik software to stream the footage and used CoverItLive for the live blog.

[Disclosure: The LEP is a Johnston Press publication.]