digital tools for journalists (sept. 2014 update)

Tools for today’s and tomorrow’s journalists

Steve Outing Media futurist, Digital-news innovator | steveouting@gmail.com

http://mediadisruptus.com

(last updated, Sept. 18, 2014)

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This is not likely to be your life as a reporter …

Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • steveouting@gmail.com

It will look more like this …

Local MoJo: Aimee Heckel, Daily Camera

http://modernloislane.blogspot.com/

In your journalism career, you will continually

be learning and using new tools

that do not exist yet

The facts of life: Journalism in 2014 and after

IMPORTANT!!! … Social media data / big data

Enter search terms to see a snapshot of related activity in the latest 500 tweets. TwXplorer will break down the most common terms, hashtags, and links for you to filter and drill down further.

Website and free mobile apps … Finds social-media posts near a news event (Twitter, Instagram, Google+,

Vine, and more) … Useful for identifying eyewitnesses,

finding news-event photos, info

Social media data / big data: Newsroom tools

Let’s talk about hardware

Glen Mulcahy’s recommended apps for MOJOs

Backpacks replacing TV news satellite trucks

Backpack livestream TV units using 4G and 3G cell service or satellite uplink can replace far more costly TV-news

satellite trucks

LiveU uplink units self-contained in backpack … Cost: wide range, but

$15,000 for purchase or $1,500/month to rent are typical prices

‘Wearable news gathering’

LA Times photojournalist uses GoPro for time-lapse at Oscars Red Carpet

Mobile journalist Tim Pool livestreams using Google Glass

Narrative lifeblogging clip camera: Takes photo every 30

seconds - $229

Autographer wearable camera … GPS and other

sensors … Takes photos on its own, continually

Smart glasses = future reporting tool

Laforge Optical Acis smart glasses: Designed to look like normal eyeglasses … Displays notifications from your phone … Has a camera, microphone, and speaker.

You control it with a touchpad on the side … Release: late 2014 … $399

News drones (UAVs): Poised for takeoff

Drone with GoPro: Only for hobby use currently

(though news organizations using them anyway)

Photojournalist recently used a drone/UAV camera to explore remains of Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine

RESOURCES:

Now, let’s talk software and services for journalists

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Familiar content-creation software still relevant, but…

Expensive

Time-consuming to learn

Difficult to learn

In the past, mostly used by newsroom experts (Art, Photo, Video departments)

Powerful tools!

Allow easy publishing to web, mobile

(BTW, open-source alternatives are free)

Free$$$

Trend: Software tools going from desktop to cloud … and they’re easier to learn and use

Free digital-tools tutorials from Poynter

Prezi: Not just for presentations ... Why not news?

Interactive images: Easy!

Interactive video: Embed many formsof content on top of parts of video

Interactive video tool

Tools to create interactive images and video

Embed e-commerce/ direct-purchase links in photos

Storify: Free, widely used curation toolEmbed what you create on website ... Easily combine original and curated content

Curation tools and services

Automatically collects and combines your social media posts into an embeddable content block

Multimedia storytelling tools

Combines maps, timeline, links, photos, video, audio into embeddable multimedia presentation; new form of interactive story that can be watched (TV-like) or explored at user’s speed

Multimedia, timelines, infographics, data visualization

Narrative + photos

For stories with narrative text and great photos … Can embed finished package on your website

Watch for new stuff: Useful for news?When a new tool or app appears, its journalistic applications might not be immediately apparent…

E.g., Vine app: 6-second looping video. … How about coverage

of a fashion show? … Or a looping animated map?

What about new Instagram Hyperlapse app?

Steve Outing Media futurist, Digital-news innovator | steveouting@gmail.com

http://mediadisruptus.com

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