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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.
Have just discovered this mojo project, where the French daily le Parisien has put a citizen reporting function on its iPhone app. Click on the red YOU button on le Parisien’s site for more details.
Giant American media company Gannett spent $10 million for a minority stake in Mogulus, the live video service with offices in Bangalore and New York. This suggests Gannett plans to have its reporters stream video stories to the web.
This is one of the first examples I have seen of a newspaper front-page photograph taken with an iPhone.
All 70 journalists on the new Portuguese newspaper “i” will be given a multimedia kit for reporting for both online and print. Sojormedia in Portugal will launch the newspaper on May 7. More about the launch here.
Back from Hong Kong today. Gave a presentation about mojo at a conference on digital journalism and foreign news organised by Hong Kong Baptist University. While there I talked to people from three English-language dailies, and two of the main wire services. Astonished to find no-one does any mojo work. This in a city with [...]
This month sees the launch of an edition of Presstime, the magazine of the Newspaper Assocition of America, devoted to saving newspapers. The cover story is headlined “Don’t Stop the Presses!”. The sub-head, ten experts share their ideas for reinventing the print newspaper” describes the content.
The French daily Le Figaro streams a television news interview, called Le Talk, only to Orange mobile phones on week days. I watched production of the program, which runs about 10 minutes, while in Paris. Not mojo but an example of what newspapers can do with 3G and some imagination.
My article about newspaper advertising in the wake of News Corp’s record losses appeared today in the mUmBRELLA newsletter. It ends with the statement that we need new business models for journalism. This is the subject of my next book, co-written with Jeff Kaye of Birkbeck College in London. The other book is about mojos [...]
The News-Press, a Gannett-owned daily in Fort Myers in Florida in the US, uses mojos though the term refers to reporters who are mobile rather than reporters who only use mobile phones. Never-the-less Mackenzie Warren, managing editor of digital information, provides this list of what their mojos are using.