GlobalMojo

Students in La Trobe University’s MA journalism program have compiled a list of the 100 articles every journalist should read.

This is a helpful video on how to update your Facebook page with video and text via your mobile phone. Not exactly mojo, but useful.

At the risk of being accused of self promotion, here is a piece about my latest book about mobile journalism. It is nicely written.

Gave two presentations about mobile journalism (mojo) to faculty and students at the wonderful School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. The 28-hour journey to Columbia, where the school is based, was worth it. This is a formidable school. You will have to read for some hours to get a sense of the width [...]

Paul Bradshaw in Birmingham has assembled a great collection of Bambuser videos on mobile journalism. Find them here. This is a wonderful innovation.

I feel like a proud parent. I’m in China, in Foshan, and my students are covering my university’s Open Day as mojos back in Geelong, Australia. They are reporting for the whole day with only a Nokia mobile phone and a 3G wireless connection. You can watch them here. I am watching them from China.

Here is a nice promo from my friend Frank Barth-Nilsen in Norway for the report I wrote for WAN/Ifra about mojo.

The BBC College of Journalism has published a free book called The Future of Journalism. It is available as a pdf here. None of the chapters focus specifically on mojo, but chapters 2 and 3 deal with multi-media reporting. Chapter 2 is called ”Introducing Multimedia to the Newsroom” and chapter 3 is ”Multimedia Reporting in the Field.” The College [...]

This NPR program profiles the integrated journalism school at Kent State University, where students are doing mojo work. Their interpretation of mojo involves laptops and digital cameras, rather than mobile phones.