We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the "Reinvention of Live" in Professional TV News Broadcasting

This article sets out to provide fresh insight into the case of liveness in news media by exploring a particular live-news technology-LiveU's digital, cellular-based, live broadcast technology, and its implementation in professional TV news broadcasting. Based on a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with nine TV news and LiveU's professionals, the findings point to various interconnections between LiveU's technology and certain professional actors through a variety of editorial, business and technological decision-making processes and activities that constitute live-news broadcasting. Essentially, the case of LiveU and its implementation in professional TV live-news broadcasting illustrate the intersection of news mobility and the production of news from a socio-technical standpoint.