Archive for the 'television' Category
Ramaa Sharma has produced an excellent video for the BBC’s College of Journalism on how to be a mojo. Make sure you also read the associated blog post for the good advice.
Had a useful conversation about mojo with Josh Villanueva, who runs a team of reporters for GMA, while I was in Manila. GMA and ABS-CBN are the two main broadcasters in the Philippines. Josh said he would love to supply the latest iPhones to all his reporters. It would be a perfect combination, he said. [...]
The latest mojo software from Vericorder in Canada has received positive reviews. Vericorder released 1st Video at the NAB conference and exhibition in Las Vegas in April. The software lets you shoot, edit and send broadcast-quality video packages from an iPhone in the field. Revolutionary stuff. And the consumer version of the software is only [...]
The ABC TV network in the US has begun advertising for video journalists, after major staff cuts at the start of March. According to internal job postings reported by Broadcasting and Cable magazine, ABC has “multiple openings” for digital journalists who will need to be able to shoot their own video, produce, write and deliver [...]
Here is a superb example of how a journalist used a mobile phone to produce an investigative story. Jeremy Jojola is an investigative reporter with KOB4 in Albuquerque in New Mexico, USA. An alleged scam artist approached Jojola to sell “high quality speakers” and Jojola captured the event on his mobile phone. It went to air [...]
I know this video is an advertisement, but it does show how simple and easy shooting and editing video on the latest iPhone, the 3GS, can be.
Moeed Ahmed, supervisor of Internet media at Al-Jazeera, talks about the tools his reporters use in this video. The mojo section is from 2.40 to 5.50. The video runs for almost 10 minutes.
Poynter has just published the transcript of a CoverItLive chat with two Florida, USA, TV journalists who reported a TV news story with only an iPhone. Here is my earlier post on the subject.
A charming story about how a TV producer, Gio Benitez, used an iPhone to report on the number of people queuing to get a new iPhone in Florida. Watch the story in the same link, in the top right-hand corner.
Read this good piece from Rory Cellan-Jones, a BBC multi-media reporter, in which he describes the equipment he uses.