102611 justice and journalism

Justice and Journalism - Digital and Mobile
Media
Val Hoeppner/Freedom Forum Diversity Institute

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Mobile Media Starter Kit:
Apps every journalist should have


Evernote

• A note-taking app that syncs
text, photos and audio to
Internet connected devices.

• You can ﬁle a story, photograph
or audio interview from
Evernote.

• Take notes or record a voice
interview.

• Evernote is a cloud app,
meaning it syncs your notes on
a cloud server.


The “cloud” makes mobile better


Smartphone eReader

Tablet

Cloud = Remote internet server
which stores, manages and
processes data

Laptop
computer Desktop computer

Dropbox

• Store your mobile media files in
the cloud

• Easily upload and store photos
and video

• Share files on your Dropbox

• Star your favorite files for
viewing offline

• Many multimedia apps are
linked with Dropbox


5-0 Police Scanner

• Listen to local, national and
internation scanner trafﬁc.

• App plays in the background so
you can write a story, take
photos or video while listening
to the scanner.

• App can map the location of
the broadcast.

• App provides local police
codes so you can follow the
jargon.


Free WiFi Finder

• Find free Wi-Fi hotspots
anywhere you travel.

• See hotspots on a map, with
address and phone number.

• Get directions from your
location to the nearest hotspot.


Camera+

• Allows you to both take and
edit photographs

• Choose your focus point and
exposure point

• Burst mode allows you to
capture multiple images -
handy for breaking news action

• Geotag your images for a
mapping project


Photoshop Express

• Very simple photo editing tool

• Use your ﬁnger to slowly swipe
to the correct exposure,
brightness or contrast

• Sharpen the image

• Share the image


Google Translate

• Translate from English to
Spanish and dozens of other
languages

• You can type your needed
translation or hit the mic button
and speak it

• Press the speaker button next
to the translation to hear it
spoken


Twitter

• #mobilemedia11

• @ffdiversity - our mobile media
training account

• @vhoeppner - I tweet about
multimedia, mobile media and
the news industry


Facebook

• Find news

• Break news

• Interact with your audience

• Enough said...


Google+

• Another social network to keep
track of....OR a new way to
interact with your online
audience

• Do national and global
interviews for free via the
Hangout

• Gather sources, interview and
post all in one package

• Create circles for your sources
and start discussions


Abbyy Text Grabber

• Capture printed text from
documents, magazines, books,
etc.

• The text can be copied, pasted
and edited

• Recognizes 60 different
languages

• Works on iPhone and Android

• Similar software is used in law
ﬁrms and costs $300


Audio Boo

• An audio blogging app that
allows you to record and publish
short audio clips.

• Reporters can use Audio Boo to
record interviews or events and
post them quickly.

• Audio Boo uses geolocation to
map your clip’s location and
allows you to upload a photo to
complete the package.

• Can be connected to FB, Twitter
and Tumblr


What makes good mobile audio?

• Breaking news/reporter updates

• Niche content, especially technology

• Short interviews

• Radio packages

• Music blogs


iTalk

• Simple audio recording app

• FREE!

• Records in wav format

• Can email wav ﬁles

• Purchase the Premium Pack for
$1.99 and get access Dropbox
accounts and background
recording


Ustream

• A video app that allows you to
record video to your mobile
device or go live and stream
your video online.

• Newspapers and others can
display UStream live video on
their own websites.

• Television stations used
UStream to broadcast live
during the ﬂooding in Nashville
last May.


UStream Producer


Mobile video editing


Splice

• Video editor - $1.99

• Add a voice track or music to
multiple audio tracks

• Simple interface, easy clip
trimming

• Save time by automatically
adding transitions

• Splice Store has royalty free
music that can be added to
projects


Vimeo

• Free video editing app for iOS

• Upload directly to your Vimeo
channel

• Share you video via Facebook,
Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress,
Email or SMS

• App is simple to use with few
glitches


5 Minute Shoot/5 Minute Edit


Geolocation apps


Geolocation pinpoints the user’s geographic location
based on latitude and longitude. Geolocation uses
both WiFi and cellular connections to ﬁnd user
location.

Users of mobile devices are connecting to people,
places and virtual communities using so-called
geolocation apps such as Foursquare, Facebook
Places, Google Places, Yelp and Wikihood.


Foursquare

• A social app that allows users
to ﬁnd each other and
geolocated places around
them.

• Journalists can use Foursquare
to connect to sources
associated with events and
places.


Foursquare for Journalists

• Find sources related to a speciﬁc business - the “I need to interview a
frequent customer of this business”

• Breaking news - use Foursquare to check into a place or area where news is
breaking. Mandy Jenkins formerly of TBD used Foursquare to cover the
Discovery Channel hostage crisis

• Use tips for sourcing information - the tips left by customers may give you
insight into a business

• Distribute content - many news organizations are partnering with Foursquare
to link their news stories by location. If the New York Times reviews a
restaurant, the story link in the location tips.


Sonar
• Check into a location and see
who you are connected to via
social networks

• Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare


Technology trends for 2012 and beyond...


Facial recognition


Why it matters...

Your photo +
Facebook
information can
lead to your SSN


2014 Rio World Cup - Facial recognition


Internet search power = instant reporting,
pre-cognition reporting/temporal analytics


Qwiki.com - scours the Internet for data and
instantly presents an audio and graphic story


Who is using temporal analytics

• Financial services

• Public relations and brand managers

• Competative intelligence (tracking competitors, their products and industries)

• Defense and intelligence analysis

• Legal (client development, research, litigation management)

• Journalists (tracking trends)


IPTV
(Internet television)
Internet Protocol Television is a
system by which internet
content, updates from social
networks, movies and television
shows are delivered, on-demand,
to households via a broadband
connection.


Internet television today...

• Netﬂix streaming of movies and television shows for $8.99 per month

• Blu-Ray, Wii, XBox 360 and other devices

• Hulu, AolTV, Crackle, Amazon Video On Demand, Vudu

• Apple TV, Roku, Popbox, Western Digital TV,


IPTV or Smart TV

• In the next 12 months every
television sold will be internet
enabled

• There are already 10 million
subscribers to Internet
television

• IPTV broadens the reach of
newspaper companies turned
media companies, making
them content providers online,
on television and in apps


IPTV headlines - and - Smart TV

• Netflix will have its first IPTV show, House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey in
2012 - Gizmodo

• Dave Chappelle is rumored to be working on a new show, bypassing
traditional broadcast networks it will be on a streaming platform like Netflix or
Hulu - Gizmodo

• Comcast offering TV guide with Facebook tie-ins - Engadget

• Several media companies (formerly known as newspapers) are preparing to
launch Internet television stations.


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