Nokia Toolkit for Reporters and Citizen Journalists
Nokia has released an N-95 mobile phone based kit for journalists to file news reports and multimedia stories (images and videos) while they are in the field without having to visit the news studio.
This mobile journalist kit contains an N95 phone, a Sony microphone for recording interviews, keyboard for typing text-based stories, tripod and a solar charger (so you can even report from locations where there’s no electricity).
The toolkit is currently being testing by a select group of Reuters journalists but the next target could well be citizen journalists.
Vlogger Steve Garfield (see in the picture) has been doing something similar with an N95 for a long time now.
Reuters Mobile Journalism | Steve | Thanks Jeremy | Picture: Flickr
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That’s awesome. I wonder how much publicity they will look for in that.
At Veeker, we just had a very interesting experience with citizen journalism. NBC San Diego, powered by Veeker, received over 2000 pictures and videos from their viewers in a very short time period. Most were pictures emailed in either from PCs or smartphones (77%). 21% were sent directly from cameraphones. I just made a post to our blog analyzing why NBC SD had such success with citizen journalism. It’s about much more than the phone!
http://blog.veeker.com
Thanks for the mention. I’d like to find out more about that Sony mic and how it interfaces with the N95…
That photo is originally from here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/1716532181/
CC BY-NC-SA
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en-us
been using my Nokia N80 to capture video clips. but this is a welcome development. do you have a price tag?