102611 justice and journalism

Justice and Journalism - Digital and Mobile Media

Val Hoeppner/Freedom Forum Diversity Institute

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Mobile Media Starter Kit: Apps every journalist should have

Evernote

• A note-taking app that syncs text, photos and audio to Internet connected devices.

• You can file a story, photograph or audio interview from Evernote.

• Take notes or record a voice interview.

• Evernote is a cloud app, meaning it syncs your notes on a cloud server.

The “cloud” makes mobile better

Smartphone

Laptop computer

Tablet

Desktop computer

eReader

Cloud = Remote internet server which stores, manages and

processes data

Dropbox

• Store your mobile media files in the cloud

• Easily upload and store photos and video

• Share files on your Dropbox

• Star your favorite files for viewing offline

• Many multimedia apps are linked with Dropbox

5-0 Police Scanner

• Listen to local, national and internation scanner traffic.

• App plays in the background so you can write a story, take photos or video while listening to the scanner.

• App can map the location of the broadcast.

• App provides local police codes so you can follow the jargon.

Free WiFi Finder

• Find free Wi-Fi hotspots anywhere you travel.

• See hotspots on a map, with address and phone number.

• Get directions from your location to the nearest hotspot.

Camera+

• Allows you to both take and edit photographs

• Choose your focus point and exposure point

• Burst mode allows you to capture multiple images - handy for breaking news action

• Geotag your images for a mapping project

Photoshop Express

• Very simple photo editing tool

• Use your finger to slowly swipe to the correct exposure, brightness or contrast

• Sharpen the image

• Share the image

Google Translate

• Translate from English to Spanish and dozens of other languages

• You can type your needed translation or hit the mic button and speak it

• Press the speaker button next to the translation to hear it spoken

Twitter

• #mobilemedia11

• @ffdiversity - our mobile media training account

• @vhoeppner - I tweet about multimedia, mobile media and the news industry

Facebook

• Find news

• Break news

• Interact with your audience

• Enough said...

Google+

• Another social network to keep track of....OR a new way to interact with your online audience

• Do national and global interviews for free via the Hangout

• Gather sources, interview and post all in one package

• Create circles for your sources and start discussions

Abbyy Text Grabber

• Capture printed text from documents, magazines, books, etc.

• The text can be copied, pasted and edited

• Recognizes 60 different languages

• Works on iPhone and Android

• Similar software is used in law firms and costs $300

Audio Boo

• An audio blogging app that allows you to record and publish short audio clips.

• Reporters can use Audio Boo to record interviews or events and post them quickly.

• Audio Boo uses geolocation to map your clip’s location and allows you to upload a photo to complete the package.

• Can be connected to FB, Twitter and Tumblr

What makes good mobile audio?

• Breaking news/reporter updates

• Niche content, especially technology

• Short interviews

• Radio packages

• Music blogs

• Simple audio recording app

• FREE!

• Records in wav format

• Can email wav files

• Purchase the Premium Pack for $1.99 and get access Dropbox accounts and background recording

Ustream

• A video app that allows you to record video to your mobile device or go live and stream your video online.

• Newspapers and others can display UStream live video on their own websites.

• Television stations used UStream to broadcast live during the flooding in Nashville last May.

UStream Producer

Mobile video editing

Splice

• Video editor - $1.99

• Add a voice track or music to multiple audio tracks

• Simple interface, easy clip trimming

• Save time by automatically adding transitions

• Splice Store has royalty free music that can be added to projects

• Free video editing app for iOS

• Upload directly to your Vimeo channel

• Share you video via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress, Email or SMS

• App is simple to use with few glitches

5 Minute Shoot/5 Minute Edit

Geolocation apps

Geolocation pinpoints the user’s geographic location based on latitude and longitude. Geolocation uses both WiFi and cellular connections to find user location.

Users of mobile devices are connecting to people, places and virtual communities using so-called geolocation apps such as Foursquare, Facebook Places, Google Places, Yelp and Wikihood.

Foursquare

• A social app that allows users to find each other and geolocated places around them.

• Journalists can use Foursquare to connect to sources associated with events and places.

• Find sources related to a specific business - the “I need to interview a frequent customer of this business”

• Breaking news - use Foursquare to check into a place or area where news is breaking. Mandy Jenkins formerly of TBD used Foursquare to cover the Discovery Channel hostage crisis

• Use tips for sourcing information - the tips left by customers may give you insight into a business

• Distribute content - many news organizations are partnering with Foursquare to link their news stories by location. If the New York Times reviews a restaurant, the story link in the location tips.

Foursquare for Journalists

• Check into a location and see who you are connected to via social networks

• Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare

Technology trends for 2012 and beyond...

Facial recognition

Why it matters...

Your photo + Facebook

information can lead to your SSN

2014 Rio World Cup - Facial recognition

Internet search power = instant reporting, pre-cognition reporting/temporal analytics

Qwiki.com - scours the Internet for data and instantly presents an audio and graphic story

Who is using temporal analytics

• Financial services

• Public relations and brand managers

• Competative intelligence (tracking competitors, their products and industries)

• Defense and intelligence analysis

• Legal (client development, research, litigation management)

• Journalists (tracking trends)

IPTV (Internet television)

Internet Protocol Television is a system by which internet content, updates from social networks, movies and television shows are delivered, on-demand, to households via a broadband connection.

Internet television today...

• Netflix streaming of movies and television shows for $8.99 per month

• Blu-Ray, Wii, XBox 360 and other devices

• Hulu, AolTV, Crackle, Amazon Video On Demand, Vudu

• Apple TV, Roku, Popbox, Western Digital TV,

IPTV or Smart TV

• In the next 12 months every television sold will be internet enabled

• There are already 10 million subscribers to Internet television

• IPTV broadens the reach of newspaper companies turned media companies, making them content providers online, on television and in apps

IPTV headlines - and - Smart TV

• Netflix will have its first IPTV show, House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey in 2012 - Gizmodo

• Dave Chappelle is rumored to be working on a new show, bypassing traditional broadcast networks it will be on a streaming platform like Netflix or Hulu - Gizmodo

• Comcast offering TV guide with Facebook tie-ins - Engadget

• Several media companies (formerly known as newspapers) are preparing to launch Internet television stations.

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