What gear do you need if you want to be your own TV reporter? You should have a look at the equipment that Kevin Sites carries with him when on assignment for Yahoo.

The list of equipment is surprising compact and reflects how technology can help a journalist to tell a story.

This is how Yahoo explains the concept: “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone is news reporting for the new millennium – a nexus of backpack journalism, narrative story-telling techniques, and the Internet, designed to reach a global audience hungry for information.”