The Uprising of Mobile Journalism

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Mobile journalism is a new type of storytelling where reporters and students use portable devices to get information and spread news for their community. Everyday people use techniques of mobile journalism everyday in some form. The most common way people write and report is on their smartphone. On smartphones there are many apps and widgets that people can use to record, take pictures, and take notes. The more common apps like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat can catch the present and most recent events going on that moment. Also, from these apps people can re-post or like someone else’s work on a particular story. Myself, I catch the news and reports from the local apps such as Twitter and Facebook. Recently when we had to design a MOJO short story I used uncommon apps such as Cameo, Flipagram, GarageBand, and Magisto. I started with recording my short interview with your basic voice record that is built within my IPhone. Then, after that I used GarageBand to place my voice record exactly where I wanted on the instrumental soundtrack I had on my cellphone. After I had the music and voice recording ready I shot my video and went through a few different apps to put together a nice video for my MOJO story. Using these few apps were difficult because I did not know what to expect from either of them. It was a challenge recording my videos and evenly contrasting it with the music and voice recordings. I believe that mobile journalism is a rising type of storytelling because it is easier, convenient, and relevant to the future generation. The way that technology is generating, I can definitely see mobile journalism expanding.