Bill Tallent’s company has an impressive client list. From USA Today to Fox News to Showtime, Mercury has an app for that. Yet, his view is that news organizations need to have more than a three-screen strategy, they have to…
Many journalists have started using their smartphones as a newsgathering and publishing tool, but Mark Briggs of KING5.com in Seattle says mobile devices can be so much more. “Few reporters use smartphones as a research device,” Briggs says, a missed opportunity, in…
More evidence that journalists must learn as much as they can about online and mobile media. According to research published on mediapost.com, people are spending as much time on the Web as they are watching TV. “The average U.S. household watches…
Should you ditch your laptop for an iPad? Kerry Northrup votes yes. He’s the brains behind the long-running NewsGear project, formerly based at the IFRA Newsplex at the University of South Carolina, and he issues an annual list of state-of-the-art…
If you’re a reporter assigned to a beat, there’s probably an app for that. For example, consumer reporters may want to download the free recalls app from the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other government organizations that monitor the safety…
Chris Gegg is the news director at WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin. Following the release of the 2010 Pew Center report on mobile access for Americans, Gegg pulled out what he sees as some of the most interesting data. According to…
Take a mobile phone and a broadcast quality microphone and the world is your storybook. That’s what multimedia guru Stephen Quinn believes. Quinn, who teaches at Deakin University in Australia, shared a bit of his enthusiasm about mobile journalism at the…
When the Wall Street Journal used Foursquare to report that New York’s Times Square was being evacuated, the location-based social network proved its worth as a tool for journalists. Foursquare, Gowalla and other services let users “check in” at specific…
It’s not news that local television newsrooms are doing more with less. But the latest RTDNA/Hofstra survey shows that even as the economy struggled last year and TV newsrooms laid off more staff, stations produced more news on the air…
What should a group of freshly-minted journalism and mass comm graduates know about the future that awaits them? I asked that question on several social networks to prepare for a recent commencement speech at the University of North Carolina at…
