For a long time a lot of smart people have been talking about the need for news organizations to deliver more content to mobile devices, but most of time, the discussions are a little light on how the move will…
Mobile news know-how for journalists
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More reasons for TV to get moving on mobile
Another study is out providing support for the idea that people want to watch TV news on their cell phones and other mobile devices. The study comes the Open Mobile Video Coalition, whose members include NBC Universal, Gannett and PBS.…
Finding news audiences on mobile devices
Taking a spin through the first 200 or so news apps on the Apple Web site, WKRG in Mobile, Alabama was the only local news station featured. So, why is that? It may be that many local news organizations are not…
J-school requires iPhone
Why would the University of Missouri’s well-regarded journalism school make an iPhone or iPod Touch a requirement for all incoming students? My first guess was that Mizzou was making a new commitment to multimedia journalism and requiring an iPhone so…
The mobile delivery difference
In this digital age journalists may (and probably should) find themselves thinking more about the delivery systems for the stories they write. According to one Pew Center survey (pdf), on a typical day, 14% of Americans aged 18-29 have used…
MTV goes mobile for Campaign 08
MTV’s political coverage has come a long way from its Rock the Vote “Boxers or briefs?” days back in 1992. This year, the network got funding from the Knight News Challenge to hire 51 young citizen journalists (one for each…
Mobile video doohicky
That’s what photographer Don Himsel of the Nashua Telegraph is using to stream live video to the paper’s breaking news blog. After some experimentation, the rig now combines a Nokia N95 mobile phone with a Sennheiser shotgun mic and a…
“Locative” news
Add another acronym to your journalism glossary. Students in the New Media Publishing Project at Northwestern University’s j-school are testing LoJo, or “locative journalism” and blogging about it at Lojoconnect. As students Ki Mae Heussner and Amy Lee explain it…
Producing for the small screen
If you need a reason to think about producing content for mobile devices, consider this: The cell phone industry estimates 30 million people in the U.S. will be video subscribers in 2009. That’s 30 million people available to watch your stories on the go. So,…
Mobile making a move?
One of the most thoughtful new media experts on the planet is a guy named Steve Shamp. Shamp directs the New Media Institute at the University of Georgia. He runs a listserv and sends out occasional email blasts that are…