The evolution of mobile reporting
Archive for January, 2009
Join my Worldcast!
Jan 30th
Exciting news! I’m recruiting journalist for a world wide experiment with Qik and Mogulus. I want to make a live streaming event with video from all the corners of the world. To participate you will need a mobile phone supported by Qik, speak English and be a journalist. I already have members from Norway, Denmark and Australia. I would love some members from Africa, Asia and America. For this first event, I have to keep the number of team members limited to eight.
On a given time and date, the plan is to produce a live streaming event, using only mobile phones to cover a topic about MOJOs. We will be jumping live from country to country, using only a team of two producers on Mogulus. The experiment will take up to one hour of your day.
If you don’t know how to use Mogulus, don’t worry, you don’t have to. If you can start your QIK-stream, that will be enough. I will send out all the instruction you need in advance, and we will make a test before we go live from all the world. All team members will get an in depth report of the setup and result of the experiment.
If you want to join our experiment, please leave a message in the comment field and I will contact you on mail. On the ABOUT page you can also contact me directly. Or you can join this group on Facebook.
MOJO yesterday – SOJO today
Jan 30th
OK, so MOJO is a short for mobile journalism or mobile journalist. In my book, not necessarily an expression for journalist working with mobile phones, but a way of working in real life. News doesn’t happen in the newsroom itself. But what about the increasingly number of journalist working not only towards the newsroom, but directly against an audience, spreading their message directly through social platforms. Should we call them SOJO’s - social journalists?
The next couple of weeks I will be writing about the role as a SOJO. Trying to discuss work flow for SOJOs, both working in the field and towards a newsroom. For some of you, a lot of it will be old news, for others a new way of working and thinking. Please feel free to comment my blog posts and share your own experience. What works for you as a journalist? How did you recruit a lot of followers on Twitter? How did you mange to connect all your social platforms in a smart way? I think that journalist have to re-enter the web-sphere with a whole new mindset. We have to be humble towards an audience who wants to participate when they have something to share. I also think that “the new world” will make it clearer than ever that we need deep digging journalist, qualified professionals that really knows their stuff. One of the biggest challenges for making room for more in depth coverage will be to figure out a good model for revenues. Digging into stuff takes time and costs a lot of money.
I’m in the progress of working out new educational programs for my company, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. These blog post will be a journey towards classes for my colleagues. The progress will be bit by bit. If you find this journey interesting and useful, I would love it if you join me on my ride. Maybe you are working on the same? Let’s cooperate!
This post also signals that MojoEvolution is expanding, covering social platforms and viral journalism more in depth.
EDIT: I’m aware that SOJO has been as a short for solo journalist (although almost never used). Thanks anyway to Ted who sent me a tweet because he didn’t wanted to look grumpy in the comments field.
Great sound quality on N95
Jan 22nd
I found this post about using a wireless mic on the N95. The wireless idea is old, but Steve Garfield manage to produce some of the best sound quality I’ve ever heard on a Nokia N-series phone. Check out the video Steve made about it. And just to make this clear. When you connect an external mic to your N95, N82 og N96, you connect it through the video-connector on your Nokia AV cable. That’s the yellow connector. The mic have to be self powered.
Steve has bought his audio adapters from RadioShack. Unfortunately they don’t ship to Norway. If anyone knows where I can buy the phone to jack adapter (with stereo to mono conversion) on the Internet, I would be really happy. And once more, why can’t Nokia produce an external mic cable?
Follow the attack on Gaza yourself
Jan 4th
If your not faint hearted and interested in what happens in Gaza it’s possible to follow the attack up real close. A lot of pictures, videos and tweets are available on the net. Here’s some links to get your started. WARNING – STRONG CONTENT!!!!
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi’s photostream on Flickr
Gaza Holocaust – group on Flickr
Videoes on YouTube about the attack
A quik way to follow all the action on Twitter is to go to the Tweet Grid and enter “Gaza” in the search field. You will have a live coverage of all the tweets with the word Gaza in them.
Feel free to add links in the comment field about mobile reporting from Gaza.
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