Blogger Amy Gahran has written a considered article about the use of Twitter during the Mumbai bombings, and her attempts to track down rumours related to claims Indian authorities tried to stop tweets about unfolding events. Meanwhile, here is a Reuters article about how people on Twitter fed live updates of developments, “highlighting the emergence of citizen journalism in news coverage”.
Attended the Future of Journalism conference in Melbourne, where the MEAA released its report. You can download the report here. Was on a panel about tools for reporting and talked about mojos. Interviewed blogger Trevor Cook about his use of CoverItLive, and Annie Fox, editor-in-chief of The Vine.
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.
Flixwagon has announced new tools to allow reporters to stream live video from the field. The media release on the company’s web site says the software works even when no network coverage is available. Broadcasts are stored “locally” (presumably on the phone) and uploaded when internet connection resumes.
The lecture in the previous post. Click on the image below to see it.
The Guardian in the UK has used a site called Dipity to show media job losses as a timeline. This visual approach is powerful because it assembles a mass of information in one site. Another innovative tool I have come to appreciate in past weeks is Wordle. I took one of Rupert Murdoch’s Boyer lectures, about the future of newspapers, and used Wordle to show the key words in the speech here.
News websites that fail to embrace video will die, video journalism pioneer Michael Rosenblum has told the UK Society of Editors conference in Bristol. For more, read here.
CNN experimented with a hologram reporter during the election night coverage. Here is a video about that experiment. Not mojo but still fascinating.
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