How to be a mobile reporter
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The document discusses the evolution and significance of mobile reporting, emphasizing the accessibility and versatility of smartphones for journalists. It highlights the rapid growth of mobile subscriptions and app usage, as well as the importance of social media in news reporting. Additionally, it points out concerns regarding mobile etiquette among users.
How to be a mobile reporter
- 1. How to be a mobile reporterBy L.A. Lorek
- 2. Get out of the newsroom
- 3. Maybe not this far out but with mobile it’s possible
- 4. Mobile reporters can work out of neighborhood coffeehouses
- 5. Mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide grew from under 1 billion to over 5 billion in a decade.T Source: International Telecommunication Unionwww.itu.int
- 6. Every reporter needs a notebook and penNow every reporter needs a smart phone
- 7. We’ve come a long way baby
- 9. 63.2 million U.S. smartphone subscribers Top Acquired Phones in the U.S. 1. Apple iPhone 3GS 2. Apple iPhone 4 3. BlackBerry Curve 8530 4. LG - Cosmos 5. Motorola – DroidSource: comScore MobiLens, Jan-2010 to Dec-2010
- 10. Backpack journalists can easily tote mobile reporting tools
- 11. “Even in the most remote parts of the world with no electricity, people have mobile phones,” – Google’s Osama Bedier at TEDxAustin
- 14. In 2011, New York Times gives its reporters iPhones 4Gs to capture video
- 15. Mobile ReportersCan capture videoTake photosRecord audioWrite notesSend e-mailsTweetMake phone calls
- 17. Favorite apps for reportersTwitterInstagram for photosCinch for recording short interviewsiTalk Lite to record longer interviews Foursquare/Gowalla for check-insPlancast for schedulingLinkedIn/Facebook/YoutubeSafari for Google maps
- 19. Consuming media on mobile Nearly 47 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers browse the web, access apps, download content or access the mobile Internet via SMS That’s up from 7.6 % a year ago Source: Comscore’s The 2010 Mobile Year in Review at www.comscore.com
- 21. Social MobileSocial Networking was the fastest growing category for U.S. subscribers with 57.9 million mobile users in Dec. 2010, up 56 % from a year ago.
- 22. Favorite mobile activitiesplayed games
- 23. FIVE MILLION Foursquare users — up from 200,000 users in 2009
- 28. Accessed Search
- 29. Captured Video
- 30. Accessed Maps
- 31. Used I.M.Accessed sports , listened to music, checked bank accounts, financial news, restaurant Info
- 32. Surge in mobile social media platforms347 %growth in Twitter mobile usage200 MILLION mobile Facebook Users100 MILLION YouTube videos played on mobile devices everydaySource: MobileFuture.org
- 34. Tagging with mobile phones
- 36. Ninety-one percent of U.S. adults say that they have seen people misuse mobile technology.Seventy-five percent of U.S. adults say mobile manners are worse now than in 2009.Source: Intel Corp.
- 37. Remember to Mind Your Manners