New Media Reporting
http://www.moeed.com
Moeed Ahmad
http://twitter.com/moeed
Head of New Media

The Al Jazeera Family

What is New Media?
New Media is a term meant to encompass
the emergence of digital, computerized, or
networked information and communication
technologies in the later part of the 20th
century.
Source: Wikipedia

“To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to
the printing press, the birth of mass media ... Technology is shifting
power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the
media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control”. - Rupert
Murdoch, quoted in Wired, July 2006
(cc) Lynette Webb, 2006

4 primary reasons
for this shift...
1. Tools
2. Connectivity
3. Sharing
4. Attitude

A case study

Chad Report on Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Camerman - Laith Mushtaq in Chad
Breaking news captured on N95
Sent directly to Newsroom using Al Jazeera Reporter
Hotel Wifi used for connection
Faster than traditional method

Cost of Reporting
Phone Uplink 9MHz Bandwidth
Application SNG Kit Cost
Data Connectivity Camera Kit

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Another case study

http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/us-airways-crash-rescue-picture-citizen-jouralism-twitter-at-work

Distribution

http://www.youtube.com/aljazeerachannel

Al Jazeera Mobile Websites
http://m.aljazeera.net

http://twitter.com/ajgaza

http://twitter.com/longmarch

http://cc.aljazeera.net

Contribution

Al Jazeera
Mobile
Reporter

http://sharek.aljazeera.net

http://yourmedia.aljazeera.net

http://search.twitter.com

Conversation

http://www.seesmic.com

http://twitter.com/SherineT

http://twitter.com/AymanM

Questions?