GlobalMojo

This is one of the best pieces I’ve read about the role of journalism in a digital world. It argues that print is best for analysis. In a world of information overload, newspapers should concentrate on providing context for their many audiences.

Today I ran a course called “new tools for reporting” at the Colac Herald. It was a practice run for workshops I will run in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, next month for the Malaysian Press Institute.

In this video Alan Murray, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, talks about training newspaper journalists to shoot video. Some of them are mojos with Nokia mobile phones.
SoloVJ is a useful blog. The writer apologies for not updating often enough. But some of the earlier posts are worth reading.

The New York Times is putting a lot of effort into video. A press release from the company says, in part, that the site produces more than 100 original videos a month. These feature breaking news and analysis “as well as enterprise and investigative reporting by Times journalists around the world, many of whom are […]

I have been busy this week working as a mojo for the Geelong Advertiser, my local paper. Here is a photograph of me in action, using my Nokia N95 8Gb.

And now for a different kind of mojo: The Star Car. This vehicle functions as a mobile newsroom, with Internet access, web cameras and lots of cool technology. The Shelby Star is in North Carolina in the USA. Drew Brooks from the neighbouring The Fayetteville Observer reports that the  car has allowed a small daily […]

On September 10 I will give a presentation about mojos to the annual conference of the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association. The PANPA event will be held at the Gold Coast in Queensland. The Media section of The Australian newspaper interviewed me about the presentation. But the story did not appear online, so I cannot […]

Ed O’Keefe of washingtonpost.com shot this video of Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention in Denver. Good to see mojos in action. He also provided the voice track.

I published an article online and in print in The Age (Melbourne, Australia) July 24 about how the mojo is changing journalism. The story also focuses on how expensive data charges are limiting Australians’ willingness to use their mobiles to surf the web.

Online journalists perform a wide variety of tasks, though writing is the most common. That was the finding of Ryan Thornburg, who  surveyed online journalists in North Carolina to find out how they worked in the past three months. He found online journalists spend their time on an average of nine different duties, with writing original […]