Archive for the 'mojos' Category
The floods in Pakistan have provoked a mojo-style citizen reporting site called SeenReport. Here is a YouTube video about it, and here is a comprehensive article in PBS’s Mediashift blog.
The Sunday magazine of The New York Times has a fascinating article about 20-somethings in the US. To illustrate the story, it asked 13 young photographers to capture the identity of their generation using iPhones. Here is the slideshow that illustrated the story.
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 [...]
Journalist Erica Zucco has written an excellent field guide to mobile reporting (mojo), though I am biased because she mentions this blog. The Newslab blog also posted an item about mojo this week.
Tiffany Campbell, a producer with seattletimes.com, has put an excellent presentation about being a mobile journalist (mojo) onto Googledocs. Comprehensive and useful.
Read this powerful piece about mobile phones from the BBC’s Paul Brannan. He’s editor for emerging platforms at the BBC and knows a lot about where news on the mobile is going.
My presentations about mobile journalism at the World Journalism Education Congress in South Africa received a lovely mention in this blog post by Deb Wenger. Her blog Advancing the Story is a must read.
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. [...]
Mojos are being used in the strikes at car factories in China. In Zhongshan, workers at the Honda parts factory filmed with their mobile phones security guards attacking workers and uploaded the video. The New York Times reported that though the workers were mostly poor migrants with limited schooling, they were “surprisingly tech savvy”. The [...]