This document discusses the rise of mobile journalism using smartphones and tablets. It notes that over 1.5 billion people worldwide have smartphones, and they are increasingly using them to take photos, shoot video, and share content online. The document then outlines various ways that journalists can utilize smartphones for newsgathering, such as covering breaking news, conducting interviews, livestreaming events, and verifying facts through social media. It concludes by exploring emerging mobile tools and trends in journalism, such as augmented reality, wearable devices, and new business models driven by mobile advertising revenue.

1. Mobile Journalism
Smartphones and tablets
can be a reporter’s best friend
Eric Ortiz l CCNMA Journalism Opportunities Conference l USC l Oct. 23, 2014

2. “The mobile evolution is
having a profound effect on
consumers and businesses. It
has kick-started the always-on
culture, presenting brands with
unprecedented opportunities
to develop closer relationships
with their customers.”
–Christina Carstensen, IDG Global Solutions

4. By the numbers
• 1.5 billion people in world have smartphones
• More than half of people with smartphones post
original photos and videos online
• By 2020, 5 billion people in world will have
smartphones
• 99.5 of consumers use mobile devices to access
content/information
• Smartphone ownership is higher for Hispanic adults (61
percent) African-American adults (59 percent) than
white adults (53 percent)
• 75 percent of consumers use smartphones to watch
video online

5. Mobile Exceeds PC Internet Usage

6. What Can Smartphones Do?
• Text
• Take pictures
• Shoot video
• Record audio
• Detail location
• Detect infared light
• Read data
• Make money
• Turn into microscope
• Perform car diagnostics
• Connect to USB stick or mouse
• Measure distances
• Measure altitude and air pressure
• Get temperature
• Detect fever
http://www.phonearena.com/news/10-amazing-things-a-smartphone-can-do-and-you-probably-dont-know-about_id56861

8. How Can Journalists Use Smartphones?
• Breaking news
• Conflict zones
• Geopolitics
• Protests
• Government
• Local business
• Metro coverage
• Sporting events
• Red carpets
• Trading floors
• Man on the street
• Live streams

9. Cover Complex, Unfolding News
• Arab Spring
• Boston Marathon Bombing
• Ferguson
• Ebola
• Ottawa shooting

10. Crowdsource for Facts
https://storify.com/acarvin/how-to-debunk-a-geopolitical-rumor-with-your-twitt2

11. Work With Citizens to Cover Same Story
http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/04/social-media-and-the-boston-bombings-when-citizens-and-journalists-cover-the-same-story/

12. Verify

13. Document and Broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGqoISd-do#t=39

14. Live Stream
http://new.livestream.com/timcast/events/3477619

15. Go to Remote Locations

16. Tell Stories
https://www.storehouse.co/stories/i4f9-the-isle-of-sylt
http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2014/05/amazing-mobile-multimedia-reports-are.html

17. Deliver Context and Coherence
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-radar-sources-report-from-deep-inside-the-ebola-crisis/s2/a562465/
http://www.onourradar.org/
http://www.eboladeeply.org/

18. Stay Charged

19. Tools
• Twitter: Microblogging
• Instagram: Photo sharing
• Vine: Six-second vido
• Tout: Social video
• Videolicious: Quick, easy video editing
• audioBoom: Audio sharing
• Ustream: Live stream video
• iMovie: Edit video
• Seene Review: 3D images
• WhatsApp: Group messaging
• Pinterest: Curated visual content
• SoundCloud: Upload, record, promote, share audio

20. More Tools
• Facebook: Social network
• Skyro: Record, play, share audio content
• DropVox: Record voice memos to Dropbox
• Evernote: Notebook. Save photos, audio files, weblinks
• Banjo: Social discovery
• Emergency Radio Free: Police scanner
• Expense Magic: Document expenses, send PDFs via
email
• CamScanner: Take photos of document, convert into
PDF
• Storehouse: Combine photos, videos, words to tell
story
• Photosynth: Panorama photo
• Portable charge: Jackery, Anker, Lumsing

21. What’s Next?
• Mobile storytelling: Evrybit
• Augmented reality: Junaio
• Wearable devices: Google Glass
• Unmanned video: Drones
• Mobile currency: Apple Pay
• Sensors: iBeacon

22. Emerging Markets

23. New Business Models
U.S. newspaper ad revenue: $63.5B in 2000, $23B in 2014
Google ad revenue: $70M in 2001, $50.6B in 2013

24. Think Mobile

25. Resources
• Mojo guide: mojogui.de
• Essential mobile journalism kit:
http://multimediashooter.com/wp/2012/07/07/t
he-essential-mobile-journalism-kit/
• Journalist’s Toolbox:
http://www.journaliststoolbox.org/archive/mobil
e-journalism/
• Steve Buttry: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/
• Web Journalist Tech and Tools:
http://webjournalist.org/topics/tools/

26. Contact
Eric Ortiz
Email: eric@getevrybit.com
Web: www.getevrybit.com
Twitter: @erictortiz, @evrybit