Mobile journalism

Tuesday, October 23rd 2007 - 15:15 CEST - Comments: 0

N okia Research Center and Reuters will work together on a mobile journalism project that has potential to change the way journalists store news reports when they are on a mission. This mobile application for journalists is the first project to be showcased from a long term research collaboration that has been established between Nokia Research Center and Reuters. The basic idea is a toolkit that journalists need to store and publish news stories from every place on earth.

 

 

Reuters journalists

The mobile journalism application uses the multimedia capabilities already available in existing smartphones and combines these capabilities to produce a toolkit that fits intuitively with the way in which journalists want to use it. This summer, select Reuters journalists around the globe will practice the new mobile journalism software application in their everyday work to edit, combine and store text, photos, sound and recorded video streams, producing and publishing multimedia news stories of full broadcast quality without needing to return to the office or studio.

 

 

GPS integrated video streaming

For the test trial, GPS integrated video-streaming technology was provided by Comvu. Reuters media has already developed a mobile editorial interface that links the toolkit developed by NRC to the in-house editorial process, allowing stories to be published almost instantly from the field. The Mobile journalism toolkit comprises multimedia capabilities, text editing tools and live video streaming and is accessed using an innovative Nokia user interface. Metadata facilities automatically combine every piece of information the device already has about the context for the story - location, time, date and so on. 

 

Mobile journalism application

"This is a easy to use mobile application for journalists that takes account of the demands placed on journalists in the field," said Nic Fulton, Chief Scientist of Reuters. "By running this application on mobile devices, rather than on notebook computers, the mobile journalism application enables us to create complete new stories and file them for distribution, without leaving the scene. This saves us time and benefits our readers by ensuring that they receive high quality news that is highly up-to-date.", added Nic Fulton.

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