The document discusses how mobile phones are becoming powerful reporting tools for journalists due to their small size and power. Key points:
1) Mobile phones are millions of times more powerful and smaller than computers from the 1960s, allowing news to be covered on the go.
2) Some media companies have been early adopters of mobile technologies, with apps that can deliver video hours before TV stations.
3) Relying on citizen reports and social media for news comes with challenges around reliability and verification of information.
4) Readers are also playing a bigger role in independently reporting and fact-checking news stories through social media.
1. The newsroom in your pocket Covering breaking news with a mobile phone
2. “Singularity” “The computer in your cellphone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one at MIT in 1965. What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket. “What fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.” --Futurist Ray Kurzweil
3. Some stats 27 Cellphones per second. 4 Babies per second
9. New Ways to Find Sources Facebook: Students wrote of their experiences Way to find friends of witnesses, victims
10. Not Always Reliable Rumor: Indian gov’t asking Twitter to be shut down because it was being used by terrorists to track cops Reality: rumor spread by high school junior in Boston
16. Iran: Twitter + Mobile + Facebook “Hamed” is an Iranian refugee living in the Netherlands, and it was from there that he posted the death of 27-year-old NedaSalehiAfghaSoltani. "I am no hero," Hamedsaid. "The real hero is my friend who risked his life making the video." Facebook friend A Facebook friend, that is. Hamed has never met the author of the film except on the social networking site.
