Mobile Journalism Show

If you were building a newsroom from scratch today, what would you do? That is the opportunity presented to Geoff Roth in Charlotte, North Carolina.  With a much smaller team than its rivals, Geoff helped bring about a newsroom that used smartphones and tiny cameras to fill TV news bulletins and the website.  On this edition of the Mobile Content Creators Show Geoff tells Mark Egan what he did and how he went about building a newsroom in a totally different way.  Follow Mark on twitter @markeganvideo and Geoff is @GeoffFox26

Platforms like snapchat, Facebook Live and Instagram are helping the European Handball Federation build a community of sports fans. Not everyone has the financial resources of bigger sports like football, so how can you use a team using mobile phones to create content on a budget?   Thomas Schoeineich from the EHL in Vienna explains to Mark Egan how they cover major tournaments using just an iPhone, monopod and cheap microphone. He also talks about how communications teams have to learn to allow more personality on social media accounts.  Follow mark on twitter at @markeganvideo and see the content Thomas is talking about at @EHF_Live

If you were at the location of a news story and you shot video, who would you send it to and would you expect to get paid? News organisations are also struggling to verify that footage that comes in is genuine.  Verifeye Media allows users to download the app and send the footage straight to them.  They can verify where it came from and sell it on.  The person who filmed it then gets a percentage of the earnings. Is this the future for mobile video content in news? John D McHugh tells Mark Egan how it works and why he thinks many people get ripped off when they give their footage to news outlets. 

Nick Garnett is a BBC reporter with BBC Radio 5 Live. He uses his iPhone for recording and editing audio. He also shoots video and uses live-streaming to bring the big stories to his audience. Last year he faced big reporting challenges while covering the Nepal earthquake and Paris terror attacks.  In this show Nick tells Mark Egan the apps and accessories he uses. He also explains how mobile content creation is changing his job....and possibly even threatening it.   

Irish broadcaster RTE have aired dozens of pieces on television which have been shot on iPhones. Mark Egan talks to Head of Innovation for RTE Technology, Glen Mulcahy.  In this show, Glen tells me what made them start filming on phones, the struggle to persuade some of his colleagues and why mobile journalism can no longer be ignored.  He  also thinks mobile devices are so important for the media in general he has organised a conference in Dublin for everything mobile. Mojocon 2016 follows on the from the success of the first event last year. http://mojocon.rte.ie/