"In this book, the author presents what he calls the 'Mobile Community Reporting' approach based on a six-year training experiment [of the Voices of Africa Media Foundation] in which he was involved as trainer and coach in eight African countries. The main argument underlying the MCR approach is the
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following: if a member of the community covers news using a reporting tool that is familiar to that community, and taking into account the values, interests and worldviews of that community, chances of capturing what the community thinks are very high." (Back cover)
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"Citizen journalists across the globe are using blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other new tools to spread articles, blog posts, videos, and photos of news happening in their countries. The new video journalists use these broader tools as well, taking full advantage of social media to share th
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eir videos and tell their stories to a wider audience. This report traces the dramatic rise in the use of crowd-sourced video and examines how this is affecting the international news media landscape. It offers recommendations for the media development community for harnessing the power–while mitigating the dangers–of citizen-shot video." (CIMA website)
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"Die Zukunft des Journalismus ist crossmedial: Reporter schreiben einen Bericht für ihre Zeitung, drehen beim Termin vor Ort ein kurzes Video für das verlagseigene Fernsehen und formulieren auch noch den Teaser für den Webauftritt. Crossmedia ist aber keine 1:1-Reproduktion von Inhalten in versch
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iedenen Medien – es bedeutet vielmehr, dass man sich über den richtigen Content im richtigen Kontext Gedanken machen muss. Wie dies geht, zeigt der Autor in diesem Buch systematisch und anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis. Er holt die Journalisten in Zeitungen, Radio, Fernsehen oder Internet ab und vermittelt ihnen die notwendigen Kenntnisse, die sie benötigen, um über die Mediengrenzen hinweg zu publizieren und Texte, Fotos, Audios und Videos miteinander zu vernetzen. Dabei geht es nicht nur um neue Technologien, sondern darum, die angemessenen journalistischen Darstellungs- und Stilmittel für die jeweilige Zielgruppe einzusetzen. Die zweite Auflage wurde überarbeitet und um ein Kapitel zum Thema »Soziale Netzwerke« bzw. »Soziale Medien« erweitert." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The handbook includes case studies gathered through interviews with newspapers in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, including the Observer and Daily Monitor in Uganda, the Standard and the Daily Nation in Kenya, and Grocott’s Mail, the Mail and Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Sowetan in South Af
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rica, as well as News24.com – South Africa’s biggest online news provider [...] In addition to the accounts of successful mobile services, the handbook includes analysis and expert advice covering the key questions media houses should ask themselves when going into mobile. The handbook also provides detailed how-to guides for potential mobile services African media houses could offer." (www.wan-ifra.org, August 9, 2011)
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"Mobile journalism means journalism using mobile phones. Mobile journalists, or mojos, extend the newsgathering options for a news organisation, especially for breaking news, says Stephen Quinn. By citing examples not only from Asia, but also the United States and Europe, he reports on the technique
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s of mojo reporting as well as the integration of mobile journalism in the newsroom structures. He also provides details about the six main software providers and recommends some software tools. Altogether, this is an easy-to-read introduction to an emerging field of online journalism." (CAMECO Update 2-2010)
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"Defining videojournalism and tracing its developments from its emergence in the 1980s to present day, the book examines satellite broadcasting, online new media and print journalism, as well as mapping the changing face of news. With end of section bullet points and summaries to highlight key conce
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pts, Practising Videojournalism provides students and practicing journalists with both practical information and historical, technological and social context." (Publisher description)
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"Mobile phones are portable, they are personal, and they as the most pervasive tool for communication between people today. They are intuitively and inherently social, expressive devices. Professional journalists, everyday citizens, and organized groups are capitalizing on the power of mobile techno
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logy to produce and consume media. As articulated by Sameer Padania of the NGO Witness, we will “stop distinguishing between mobile media, new media, digital media and traditional media--and regard them all as parts of the same landscape.” Instead, it behooves us to promote greater collaboration, invest in tools to maximize the strategic leveraging of the devices and networks, and influence policy in a way that creates an enabling environment for a more informed and participatory society." (Conclusion, page 28)
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