Issues in multimedia journalism

 The term ‘mojo’ refers to mobile journalism. This is where reporters go out and gather stories relying solely on a mobile phone to record, film or capture a story.  Mobile phone devices today are equiped with digital camera’s, voice recording systems and video camera’s. They can also readily access the internet which allows reporters to post their stories online almost straight away no matter where they are.  In this information age people want their news more readily which mojo journalism can provide by being able to print stories online straight away.

This form of reporting is very popular in Scandinavia, the UK, Europe, the US and Africa. Othe developed countries such as Australia however don’t utilize this form of futuristic reporting yet because of high mobile internet and call charges.

Barth-Nilsen along with National broadcasters in Norway plan to use mojo content for mainstream platforms such as television and are running trials to see how it performs.

The Reuters news agency equipped it’s journalists with a mobile journalism toolkit with the aim of being more efficient and producing stories in a new way.

Here is a video of Reuters discussing their mojo tools.