Archive for the 'mobile newsroom' Category
All mojos should know about FindStringers, which has just launched. The first 1,000 to register get a free one-year account. All students can join for free, provided they have a student number from a legitimate J-school. FindStringers will allow any media company to hire any stringer in the world, and integrate them instantly into their network. FindStringers [...]
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 [...]
American journalism educator Robb Montgomery is in Sweden this week with a team of Swedish student video journalists. They will produce daily web-based reports for the World Editors Forum in Goteborg.
A good example of mojos at work can be seen at Ifra’s conference on digital trends being held today in Amsterdam. You can see the work of the mojos by visiting the Ifra Magazine multiblog. And read about the concept of moblogging here.
The Star Car, a joint project of Ifra and the Shelby Star, is the first American example of Ifra’s Mobile NewsGear 2007 project. It allows the North Carolina newspaper to cover breaking news fast enough to compete with local television, said Kerry Northrup, Ifra’s director of publications and the founding director of the Newsplex. The 2007 NewsGear project produced the newspaper [...]