New reporting tools
Image taken from moblogs.com.au
Haven’t we come a long way since the days of notebooks and pens to tell stories?
Today stories can be told across a range of different mediums: print, radio, tv, moblogs, podcasts, vlogs and blogs.
Anyone can report on a story as it happens and all you need is your mobile phone.
Phones today take amazing quality photos as well as being able to record video. This video can be of very high standard ready to be released to the public.
By loading this multi-media message from your phone to a website, you are creating a moblog (mobile blog).
You can update a blog even when you are on the go and not sitting at a computer.
Websites such as Youtube and Moblogs.com.au have become popular with the need for people to upload their video stories for the world to see.
Some of these stories are quite interesting and beneficial.
Podcasting is a brilliant idea. A podcast is a verbal blog.
You can set your computer to automatically download new podcasts as they are uploaded to certain websites.
You can then listen to the new podcasts in your own time, instead of tuning in at times set by the medium.
Another new form of reporting is the vlog or video blog.
All you need is a digital video camera or mobile phone.
Then point and shoot your story. Common video-editing software is used to pull the story together and then it is ready to be viewed.
It’s amazing how far we have travelled along the technology highway.
As technology keeps on evolving, so will the ways which journalists will be able to communicate with the world.
I look forward to seeing what the future brings us and what that will allow us to bring to the world.
