Mobile Journalism

Through a simple click of a button, social media has made connecting with audiences easy and instantaneous. News consumers shift through content on social media platforms daily, instead of waiting passively for news anchors to deliver things hours later. With its growing presence, social media has become an inescapable asset…

Three mobile journalists share their experiences and challenges of using phones to capture African stories — It was while volunteering at a hospital in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, where a woman suffering from ulcers was wrongly diagnosed and admitted for Ebola, that Sallu Kamuskay’s mobile storytelling journey began. …

The Media Challenge Initiative is building the next generation of African journalists — By Benon Herbert Oluka The July 17, 2018 speech by former U.S. President Barrack Obama, delivered at a lecture to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, resonated with many people for different reasons. …

Tell your story, build a community and grow your following on social media. — Lately, I’ve been learning a lot about how to build a social media presence and personality. My top tip — do your homework. Personally, I am on the verge of completing a homework-intensive, six-week formal training program with journalism professor Matt Veto, a longtime journalist and multimedia storyteller. The course…

The trials and triumphs of learning multimedia storytelling — Over the past six weeks, I participated in a mobile storytelling class to improve my overall communication skills. I am a fairly decent self-taught journalist, as I have never taken an actual class in the field, but have participated as an editor for my school’s newspaper. However, despite working for…

The significance of mobile storytelling during a civil rights movement. — This past week, mobile storytelling was in action more than ever before. Journalists and citizens worked to actively tell stories from across the world regarding the protests surrounding racist policing and the murder of George Floyd. These stories were told through words, but the most impactful stories were shared through…

Reporting live from a demonstration, filming an interview and editing the footage on the way back to your office, doing an Insta story for your local news outlet: mobile journalism (mojo) means that you’re producing journalistic stories on the go, mainly with a smartphone. Here’s (almost) all you need to know to become a mobile journalist — 1. Story comes first, first, first. Hey, wait, you may think, isn’t this going to be about smartphones, cool apps and gadgets? Yes, sure, in a minute. But everything starts with a story you want to tell. And if it’s a good story, it must …

Learn how to produce a compelling video with these tips and tricks — Cellphones have become extremely powerful and capable and more widely used than desktops for consuming content. Social media usage is rising quickly (and 90% of social media users are using their phones to access it). …

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