News websites that fail to embrace video will die, video journalism pioneer Michael Rosenblum has told the UK Society of Editors conference in Bristol. For more, read here.
CNN experimented with a hologram reporter during the election night coverage. Here is a video about that experiment. Not mojo but still fascinating.
In this video Alan Murray, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, talks about training newspaper journalists to shoot video. Some of them are mojos with Nokia mobile phones.
SoloVJ is a useful blog. The writer apologies for not updating often enough. But some of the earlier posts are worth reading.
The Knight News Challenge closes midnight October 31. I submitted my proposal, a citizen mojo project, today.
The European Journalism Centre runs an excellent site for journalists. It is one of the sites I look at daily. This article on the need for more technology skills among journalists caught my attention. I gave a talk about mojos to the EJC staff in June this year.
The New York Times is putting a lot of effort into video. A press release from the company says, in part, that the site produces more than 100 original videos a month. These feature breaking news and analysis “as well as enterprise and investigative reporting by Times journalists around the world, many of whom are shooting video themselves”. The Times also continues to develop video series by well-known journalists such as David Pogue, Mark Bittman (The Minimalist), David Carr (The Carpetbagger) and A.O. Scott (Critics’ Picks). The site housed more than 3,000 videos as of late October.
Cyberjournalist reports the launch Know the News from of LinkTV. It’s a set of free web-based tools for news literacy that focus on international television news. The project is currently being beta tested by communications and journalism classes at the University of Texas, Austin; American University in Washington DC; and students from the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change based in Salzburg, Austria. Students create their own news stories by editing video from a variety of American and international television news reports plus their own news-talk program. It’s not mojo, but it’s interesting. Have been travelling in places without Internet access. That’s my only excuse for slow updates, apart from too many other things to do.
Ifra asked me to write a special report about mojos. I’ve just finished the draft. It’s about 13,000 words. Will finish with some recommendations about the best tools: another 2,000 words. Have tested Qik, Bambuser, Flixwagon, Shozu and Kyte. Of these, I find Qik, Bambuser and Flixwagon the most relevant for reporting breaking news. My criteria were simplicity of use and quality of image. Kyte and Shozu were difficult even to download onto my phone. Shozu is fine for still pictures. Video quality varies, depending I suspect on how far my phone is from the server, and the calibre of the local wireless broadband networks. Because Qik’s servers are in California (the closest to Australia), I get pretty fast response. Bambuser is based in Sweden and Flixwagon in Israel, yet I still get pretty fast connections. Any suggestions appreciated. See earlier post about practising as a mojo at my local paper.
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