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Globalmojo | Newsgathering innovation in the US and HK
Reporters are using mobile phones to shoot video for the web
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About 400 reporters from the Wall Street Journal are using smartphones to file video from the field. Read this article about this innovation at the web site of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation. Here at the SCMP we are doing our own version of this mobile-phone based form of reporting. Here is an example
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Dr. Stephen Quinn writes about technology and is especially interested in the potential of the mobile phone for newsgathering. Dr. Quinn returned to journalism in 2011 after 15 years as an academic. He has written 17 books. The most recent is MOJO: Mobile Journalism in the Asian Region, published in 2012.
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