The Easiest Way to Record Phone Interviews? Have the Subject Use an iPhone to Record Themselves-
A major benefit of reporting with an iPhone is the ability to avoid inferior phone-quality interviews. A few swipes can turn an iPhone into a powerful recording tool, providing a reporter with studio-quality audio quickly, without requiring coordination of a busy reporter and interviewee's schedules.
Note: This story was adapted from a shorter post on Neal Augenstein's iPhone Reporting Tumblog.
Neal Augenstein is an award-winning reporter with WTOP-FM and wtop.com in Washington, D.C. He is the first major-market radio reporter to do all his field reporting on an iPhone. In Nov. 2012, Neal and WTOP donated his iPhone to The Newseum" for future displays related to changes in news technology. Neal is a frequent contributor to CBS News Radio. On Twitter, follow @AugensteinWTOP. He blogs at www.iphonereporting.tumblr.com.
