Going Mobile
Learning how to:
- What kinds of stories lend themselves to mobile reporting
- What technology you need
- How to use selected mobile publishing services for text, photographs, and video
- How professional news organizations use mobile to complement their existing publishing platforms.
Journalism is not journalism until published. mobile journalism makes this immediate.
Mobile media is a tool everyone can use, it is as useful as a swiss army knife. It has so many purposes.
The audience is going mobile so journalism must go mobile as well.
- Makes easy to cover things more effectively and clearly
- need a tool to capture and produce content
- away to connect to the internet so you can publish it
Tools:
- iphone
- blackberry
- nokia N95
- full backpack with a camera, tripod, audio recorder, microphone and a laptop with a 3G wireless internet card.
Bottom Line:
- Keep it simple
- dont lug more equipment than you can handle to cover the story
- dont ever try and use a device your not familiar with
- be perpared
Choose your Story:
- Go somewhere interesting
- first hand is always interesting
- audience expects to see it here and now
Gearhead- job is to be out and about and report minute to minute
Light packer- traditional journalist, just enough equipment to get the job done.
Say your words