Margaret’s 3rd year journalism blog

 
Mobile journalism (mojo)
Mobile journalism is on the rise, particularly with the continual evolution of technology. With increasing quality of pictures and videos from mobile phones, even High Definition quality becoming probable over the next few years, it is becoming more practical for news organisations to utilise this newsgathering tool. 
Many organisations around the world have been taking advanctage of mobile [...]

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What can video-blogging bring to journalism?

This week’s reading topic presents both positives and negatives to the new medium at hand. In this case, we’re talking about video blogs. As Jennifer Woodard Maderazo writes, although there are many low quality video blogs that contain unclear and inconsistent content, she found a few blogs that could prove successful in [...]

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Stomp Singapore: Citizen journalism on the rise
Citizen journalism is becoming more prominent throughout the globe. Similar to OhMyNews in South Korea, Stomp of Singapore Press Holdings in Singapore has seen a significant take off.
 
User generated content has become more frequent as the technology in basic commodities such as mobile phones has rapidly improved.
 
Most [...]

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