Mobile JournalismSmartphones and tablets

can be a reporter’s best friend

Eric Ortiz l CCNMA Journalism Opportunities Conference l USC l Oct. 23, 2014

“The mobile evolution is having a profound effect on consumers and businesses. It has kick-started the always-on culture, presenting brands with unprecedented opportunities to develop closer relationships with their customers.” –Christina Carstensen, IDG Global Solutions

By the numbers

• 1.5 billion people in world have smartphones• More than half of people with smartphones post original

photos and videos online• By 2020, 5 billion people in world will have smartphones• 99.5 of consumers use mobile devices to access

content/information• Smartphone ownership is higher for Hispanic adults (61

percent) African-American adults (59 percent) than white adults (53 percent)

• 75 percent of consumers use smartphones to watch video online

Mobile Exceeds PC Internet Usage

What Can Smartphones Do?• Text• Take pictures• Shoot video• Record audio• Detail location• Detect infared light• Read data• Make money• Turn into microscope• Perform car diagnostics• Connect to USB stick or mouse• Measure distances• Measure altitude and air pressure• Get temperature• Detect fever

http://www.phonearena.com/news/10-amazing-things-a-smartphone-can-do-and-you-probably-dont-know-about_id56861

How Can Journalists Use Smartphones?

• Breaking news• Conflict zones• Geopolitics• Protests• Government• Local business• Metro coverage• Sporting events• Red carpets• Trading floors• Man on the street• Live streams

Cover Complex, Unfolding News

•Arab Spring•Boston Marathon Bombing• Ferguson• Ebola•Ottawa shooting

Crowdsource for Facts

https://storify.com/acarvin/how-to-debunk-a-geopolitical-rumor-with-your-twitt2

Work With Citizens to Cover Same Story

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/04/social-media-and-the-boston-bombings-when-citizens-and-journalists-cover-the-same-story/

Verify

Document and Broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGqoISd-do#t=39

Live Stream

http://new.livestream.com/timcast/events/3477619

Go to Remote Locations

Tell Stories

https://www.storehouse.co/stories/i4f9-the-isle-of-sylthttp://www.robbmontgomery.com/2014/05/amazing-mobile-multimedia-reports-are.html

Deliver Context and Coherence

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-radar-sources-report-from-deep-inside-the-ebola-crisis/s2/a562465/http://www.onourradar.org/http://www.eboladeeply.org/

Stay Charged

Tools• Twitter: Microblogging• Instagram: Photo sharing• Vine: Six-second vido• Tout: Social video• Videolicious: Quick, easy video editing• audioBoom: Audio sharing• Ustream: Live stream video• iMovie: Edit video• Seene Review: 3D images• WhatsApp: Group messaging• Pinterest: Curated visual content• SoundCloud: Upload, record, promote, share audio

More Tools• Facebook: Social network• Skyro: Record, play, share audio content• DropVox: Record voice memos to Dropbox• Evernote: Notebook. Save photos, audio files, weblinks• Banjo: Social discovery• Emergency Radio Free: Police scanner• Expense Magic: Document expenses, send PDFs via email• CamScanner: Take photos of document, convert into PDF• Storehouse: Combine photos, videos, words to tell story• Photosynth: Panorama photo• Portable charge: Jackery, Anker, Lumsing

What’s Next?

• Mobile storytelling: Evrybit• Augmented reality: Junaio• Wearable devices: Google Glass• Unmanned video: Drones• Mobile currency: Apple Pay• Sensors: iBeacon

Emerging Markets

U.S. newspaper ad revenue: $63.5B in 2000, $23B in 2014Google ad revenue: $70M in 2001, $50.6B in 2013

New Business Models

Think Mobile

Resources

• Mojo guide: mojogui.de• Essential mobile journalism kit:

http://multimediashooter.com/wp/2012/07/07/the-essential-mobile-journalism-kit/

• Journalist’s Toolbox: http://www.journaliststoolbox.org/archive/mobile-journalism/

• Steve Buttry: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/• Web Journalist Tech and Tools: http://

webjournalist.org/topics/tools/

Contact

Eric OrtizEmail: eric@getevrybit.comWeb: www.getevrybit.com

Twitter: @erictortiz, @evrybit