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Mobile Tools for Journalists
The document discusses how smartphones and mobile apps are changing journalism. It provides tips for journalists on using social media like Twitter for live reporting and breaking news, tools for mobile reporting, and publishing content on mobile. Reporters are encouraged to tweet live from events using hashtags, take photos and videos to publish, and to search Twitter for leads and eyewitnesses to events. The document recommends apps and tools like Google Voice, Dropbox, Evernote, Qik and WordPress that can help journalists with productivity, livestreaming video, note-taking and mobile publishing.
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- 1. Smart Phones, Smart Journalists MandyJenkins, @mjenkins Phoenix Newstrain #PNTmobile
- 2. U.S. Smartphone Use ofAmerican adults have a cell phone Source: Pew 83% 35% of American adults have a smartphone
- 3. Breaking News onTwitter
- 7. Breaking News Tweeting •Consult with your staff to develop a hashtag (if there isn't one) • If more than one person is tweeting, pull in their tweets to your site
- 8. When Live-Tweeting • Warnfollowers in advance • Mix play-by-play with context, background • Mix in photos, quotes • Take questions when it’s possible • Note long pauses
- 9. Newsroom Workflow • Reporterstweet/liveblog details, quotes and media • Web producers/editors start a story from those tweets • Reporters use tweets as notes to write longer form
- 10. Search by keywords,location, time Can be done in desktop, mobile apps Search quickly - before the stream is taken over by reaction Search.Twitter.Com
- 11. When You FindLeads • Connect with eyewitnesses, get contact info • Have them wait for a reporter on scene • Verify!
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- 24. Tools to ManageThe Insanity • Trends and searches Live search
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- 27. EXERCISE • Write apost on this session in email. Publish by email to chekrat776@tumblr.com • Take photos or audio. Publish by email to chekrat776@tumblr.com. • Send tweets with hashtag #PNTmobile
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- 29. QUESTIONS, FOLLOW-UP Mandy Jenkins mandyjenkins@gmail.com @mjenkins Moreresources and such at: zombiejournalism.com slideshare.net/mandyjenkins
Editor's Notes
- #2 Who has a smarthphone? Phone with web access?
- #3 Android is the most common smartphone platform, followed by iPhone and Blackberry devices 83% own cell phones 2011
- #4 Who is on Twitter? Best tool for mobile news Report directly from the scene
- #6 Regular people do it too Verification is important
- #7 We’ll start with some examples of why Twitter is a valuable breaking-news tool. Most will, of course, remember that Twitpic had the first shot of the Hudson landing.
- #8 You can pull in via Twitter's widget or CoveritLive, Scribble Live
- #11 Search for local keywords, especially when news is happening
- #15 Demo it with your phone live video from a scene embed your channel online save videos publish to youtube/Twitter/FB UStream works in similar fashion
- #16 syncs notes across all devices share and collaborate on notes with others record audio and take notes at the same time
- #18 Free live chats multiple participants can add audio, video and photos in real time great for live events readers can ask questions too # do with sources # staff Show off Zville story
- #19 Blogging on the go. Advanced looking sites
- #20 Blogging on the go Can blog by audio calls DRAGON Publish by Email Easy without an app
- #22 Press 4 to record call announces to everyone it is recording saves as an mp3 Free texts, transcribed voicemails Can get a local #
- #23 Access your computers from iPhone, iPad See them as if you were there Free, but to move files around you need to upgrade to $40 option Also can use on Desktop
- #24 Access files on the go, across computers Can even share as a group Great for shared reporter docs and media Works on computer too
- #25 trends not an app search in most twitter apps
- #26 Instapaper app save long stories for offline Research to read later