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 journalism. The BBC has been broadcasting mobile stories from around Europe for months and in Norway, people are trained in mojo for the national TV station. According to Stephen Quinn, his contacts with the Daily Telegraph, Reuters and the BBC tell him that they are experimenting with nobile journalism as a newsgathering tool, but it will not replace traditional newsgathering tools.  

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5WZOW_jHpuU

Mobile Citizen Reporter- Anticipating Orange 2008, mobile solutions companies are releasing and working on more user-generated technologies, further changing the role of mobile phones from simply a phone. Their new technology allows citizens to take good quality photos/videos/stories and send them directly to the content managenent system. They also have developed a copyright clause, which means before the content is sent to the news agency, the citizen agrees to the editor’s terms.  It is likely that as data costs decrease globally, it is likely that this practice will become more common.

Steve Garfield, Mobile video journalist highlights a major benefit of mobile citizen journalism. Video blogger Steve Garfield got a massive scoop with US senator presidential candidate Duncan Hunter announcing that ABC, FOX News and CNN have blanked them out of the last two debates and that he is not going to quit. He beat CNN to the announcement simply because he was there at the right time with his trusty bit of technology.