The evolution of mobile reporting
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Try it – throw it away!
Feb 5th
- Mackenzie Warren from Gannett
Mackenzie Warren from Gannett, for many know as Mr. Mojo, was a keynote speaker at the conference in Fredrikstad, Norway today. He talked about the changes he made in Fort Meyers News. His basic philosophy is that the news never happens in the newsroom. To report about news, journalists have to be out in the field (pretty basic one should think…). So, all the journalist in FMN had to get out in the street. They produce and send their story from the field. They basicly split the work process in two:
Collector – journalist – MOJOs:
· Report
· Write
· Shoot (video, pictures, sound)
· Produce
Connector – editors:
· Edit
· Crunch
· Publish
Mackenzie also showed us a lot of the things he’s working on in Gannett. One of his core messages is that we have to experiment more to survive. He has three rules for experimentation:
- You have to give a try!
- Failure is a part of success
- You can’t really break anything
In Gannett they aim to have a low threshold for trying out new things. If it don’t work – they throw it away.
Gannett has bought a part of Mogulus. In the future you can expect more live video on sites from Gannett. They are experimenting with live video and combining it with CoveritLive.
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.
Qikkers following the final push in the election
Nov 3rd
There’s a lot of political activity on Qik these days. A lot of MOJO’s are following the final push in the US election. Adam Jadhav from the St.Louis Post-Dispatch is one of several journalists going mobile to cover the election as quick as possible. I’ve added his live stream on Qik in this post. To check out his entire effort, check out his Qik archive. If you see other hard working MOJO’s, covering the election, feel free to ad their url as a comment.
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