Briggs chapter five
Summary
The emergence of spreading news via mobile devices has become the latest in further improving the ever quickening pace of dissemination. Briggs offers examples of how mobile devices have been used to break news, and why they have had such an impact. With devices like the iPhone, news has now become a nearly instant process.
Key Terms
- Mobile Journalism– reporting done via a mobile device (including video, audio, picture, and text)
- Gearhead- journalists who are always out reporting, sometimes every day; they use multimedia to publish their stories, and are always using the latest in technology.
- Light packer- journalists who occasionally do reporting immediately from the field
Here, as seen in the link above, is a picture of some traditional equipment you may encounter when dealing with a MoJo:
Can't quite fit into the pocket...
Mobile journalism has become another means for those attempting to make a name for themselves as a journalist.