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Maria Santana is a New York Correspondent for CNN en Español, a Turner Broadcasting Company. Before CNN en Español, Maria worked as the NY correspondent and Bureau Manager for SBS Broadcasting's Mega TV. She also worked as a producer and assignment editor for Telemundo WNJU in New York. Maria is a Graduate of Wesleyan University, and an Alumnus of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting program.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Reporting Live via Skype on the 2010 Snow Blizzard - From my Backyard!

Here's an interesting one - The week just before Valentine's day gave us one of the biggest North East snow storms in years. So much so that the NY Metro Area was pretty much shut down.

For local news media this was a very busy day. All the major news organizations had their army covering the weather in various parts of the city and suburbs. I on the other hand, was able to cover it from my backyard.

As you may already know, our NY bureau doesn't have a live satellite truck yet, so we got creative and used Skype, a few lights, and a computer to get the news out to our audience in. I just love how technology is allowing smaller outfits like mine do much more than what we ever thought possible. Not bad, eh?

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