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Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute has an interesting article this morning about how a television station in Albany, Ga., is saving paper from its news programs by using iPads for the anchors.

TV Newsroom Saves Money by Using iPads in Place of Paper Scripts

Posted by Al Tompkins

Apr. 28, 2010

WFXL-TV in Albany, Ga., has just switched to iPads from paper scripts that anchors read on set. To change pages, anchors just swipe their fingers across the screen.

As TV folks know, lots of scripts get added to the anchor's stack as a newscast progresses. To add scripts, producers print them to a PDF and send the PDF to an iPad e-mail account.

Terry Graham, news director/anchor at WFXL, said the station bought the iPads because it expects to save thousands in paper expenses. The move, he said, is not part of a promotion or partnership with Apple.