Video Journalism

Mobile and Video Journalism Viability

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Mobile and Video Journalism Viability

Reuters has launched a program in 2007 to determine the efficiency of mobile journalism . They equipped their journalists with a mobile phone which has the capacity to capture video and send s via Bluetooth microphone and Bluetooth keyboard . These devices are aimed to aid the journalists in gathering , writing and publishing their news stories They need not go to the newsroom to write their news stories instead they just typed the news stories wherever

they were using their mobile phone and keyboard . A mobile editorial interface that provides a link from the toolkit of the journalists to the in-house editorial processes allowed the news company to publish the stories instantly (Luft 2007

After the Reuters experiment , journalism students from South Africa replicated the trial . They used mobile technology in to distribute news content in the form of text , videos , and images to the mobile phones of students (Oliver 2008

The experiments that were conducted using mobile phones to distribute news to the people highlight the evolution of news processing . It eases and simplifies the flow of news from the journalist to the people

Traditional Journalism

Traditionally , journalists create news stories by gathering data in the field . They conduct interviews , gather information and data that will support the stories they are writing . After they have gathered the necessary data , they will go back to the newsroom to write their news stories and submit to the Section Editor and the Editor in Chief for editing . If the story is approved by both editors , the story will be included in the lay out of the news the following day . The lay out editors will determine the space that the story will consume and the part of the where it will appear

Mobile Journalism

Through the introduction of mobile journalism a news story will no longer have to go through the long process . The journalist need not go back to the newsroom to write his story he will just write the story where he is and send it to his editors . The story may either appear on a traditional news or it can be distributed and published on-line or through mobile phones

The process allows journalists to spend more time in the field and gather as much information as they can for the news story without worrying of the time . It also creates a more distributed newsroom and a new avenue of presenting the news

Mobile journalism does not only benefit the journalists but it also makes access to news more convenient for the readers . They need not buy newss to update themselves on what is happening they only need to press a few buttons in their mobile phones to read the latest events

Aside from these advantages , mobile journalism also lessens the people who are involved in news gathering . The journalist can do a one man job--he can take the photos , videos , conduct interviews and write the...