The newsroom in your pocket

Newsroom in your pocket

Covering breaking news with a mobile phone

Strategies to engage with tomorrow’s news consumers – and creators

“The computer in your cellphone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one at MIT in 1965. What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket.

“What fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.”

--Futurist Ray Kurzweil

Future Displays

From CES:

Quantum LED technology

Creates LED grid in RGB color

Powered by temp differential

Bluetooth connectivity

Augmented reality

Iran: Twitter+Mobile+Facebook“Hamed” is an Iranian refugee living in the Netherlands, and it was from there that he posted the death of 27-year-old NedaSalehiAfghaSoltani. "I am no hero," Hamedsaid. "The real hero is my friend who risked his life making the video."

A Facebook friend, that is. Hamednever met the author of the film except on the social networking site.

World Cup Soccer 2010

ESPN announced an $100MM plus investment into mobile video in 2011.

“Fans don’t care how they get their content as long as they get it.

“Mobile is personal, mobile is digital, mobile is video and mobile is social.” --Brian Colbert, senior director of mobile ad sales at ESPN

Tablets, tablets, everywhere!

More than 80 tablets announced at the CES show.

Each wants you to develop content for their store (Apple’s iPad App store now larger than their laptop biz)

“Hope you have a good browser on that thing…”

“The best camera in the world is the one that you have with you when the picture happens.”

Way too many variables in each market to make a blanket recommendation (carrier coverage, local HSDPA servers down-rezzingvideos, etc.)

#1 cause of video problems: dirty optics (the phone is in your pocket, after all…)

1. Identify & connect with sources while in the field

2. Coordinate with other team members3. Search and access content in various forms

(web, video)4. Accurately & quickly enter text5. Capture, edit & transmit still photos6. Capture, edit & transmit audio7. Capture, edit & transmit video

8. Use GPS to navigate to a location9. Upload content to a CMS10. Stream audio/video live to web11. Transmit/share files with another reporter’s

mobile device12. Generate or use QR codes 13. Geo-tag content

Social Networking sites – join them all and establish a presence

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Gowalla, SCVNGR, FourSquare

CrossPaths, StreetMaven, TweetyMap, MeetUp

Yammer Posterous Tumblr Weegoh CrossPathz BrightKite

Beyond Google: Dragon Medical, iTriage

World Factbook

HazMat, PoliceScanner

Wikipanion Plus

Firefighter Companion VideoTime for Facebook EzUbi (for your audio/video) DailyMotion Premium (for viral videos)

DragonDictate

Photoshop Express

Audioboo

iMovie

Blogpress

• Blogger• LiveJournal• Squarespace

• Typepad• Picasa• Flickr

UStream

Filer

MobileQuest -http://www.artesianmedia.com/mobilequest

Make it fun & non-threatening

Give prizes at the end

•Most successful big media company in the world•Very forward-thinking•Aggressive approach to new technology

VG.nohadthevideo 6 hoursbeforetheTV newschannelscouldgettheir video tothestation, ingested, edited, v/o, etc.

MISTAKES:

Many voices

Logistics

Getting material to office

Rumor: Indian gov’t asking Twitter to be shut down because it was being used by terrorists to track cops

Reality: rumor spread by high school junior in Boston

Question: How often, and under what conditions, do you interact with your readers?

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