Reporting by cigarette lighter

Reporting by cigarette lighter

About half way through this NPR Morning Edition story, you will hear more about the Lake Charles American Press and the editor's determination to report the story in the face of monumental problems (no office, no press, no website). In fact, as we noted earlier, the newspaper is now a blog and the laptop that is the heart of the newspaper's new technology is powered, as you will hear, by a cigarette lighter in the editor's car.