Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
An updated version of my presentation on digital tools for journalists.
Citation preview
Tools for today’s and tomorrow’s journalists
Steve Outing Media futurist, Digital-news innovator | [email protected]
http://mediadisruptus.com
(last updated, Sept. 18, 2014)
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
This is not likely to be your life as a reporter …
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
It will look more like this …
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Local MoJo: Aimee Heckel, Daily Camera
http://modernloislane.blogspot.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
In your journalism career, you will continually
be learning and using new tools
that do not exist yet
The facts of life: Journalism in 2014 and after
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
IMPORTANT!!! … Social media data / big data
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Enter search terms to see a snapshot of related activity in the latest 500 tweets. TwXplorer will break down the most common terms, hashtags, and links for you to filter and drill down further.
Website and free mobile apps … Finds social-media posts near a news event (Twitter, Instagram, Google+,
Vine, and more) … Useful for identifying eyewitnesses,
finding news-event photos, info
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Social media data / big data: Newsroom tools
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Social media data / big data: Newsroom tools
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Let’s talk about hardware
still
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Glen Mulcahy’s recommended apps for MOJOs
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Backpacks replacing TV news satellite trucks
Backpack livestream TV units using 4G and 3G cell service or satellite uplink can replace far more costly TV-news
satellite trucks
LiveU uplink units self-contained in backpack … Cost: wide range, but
$15,000 for purchase or $1,500/month to rent are typical prices
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
‘Wearable news gathering’
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
LA Times photojournalist uses GoPro for time-lapse at Oscars Red Carpet
Mobile journalist Tim Pool livestreams using Google Glass
Narrative lifeblogging clip camera: Takes photo every 30
seconds - $229
Autographer wearable camera … GPS and other
sensors … Takes photos on its own, continually
$399
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Smart glasses = future reporting tool
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Laforge Optical Acis smart glasses: Designed to look like normal eyeglasses … Displays notifications from your phone … Has a camera, microphone, and speaker.
You control it with a touchpad on the side … Release: late 2014 … $399
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
News drones (UAVs): Poised for takeoff
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Drone with GoPro: Only for hobby use currently
(though news organizations using them anyway)
Photojournalist recently used a drone/UAV camera to explore remains of Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine
RESOURCES:
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Now, let’s talk software and services for journalists
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
“ … !”
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Familiar content-creation software still relevant, but…
Expensive
Time-consuming to learn
Difficult to learn
In the past, mostly used by newsroom experts (Art, Photo, Video departments)
Powerful tools!
Allow easy publishing to web, mobile
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
(BTW, open-source alternatives are free)
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Free$$$
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Trend: Software tools going from desktop to cloud … and they’re easier to learn and use
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Free digital-tools tutorials from Poynter
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Prezi: Not just for presentations ... Why not news?
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Interactive images: Easy!
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Interactive video: Embed many formsof content on top of parts of video
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Interactive video tool
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Tools to create interactive images and video
Embed e-commerce/ direct-purchase links in photos
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Storify: Free, widely used curation toolEmbed what you create on website ... Easily combine original and curated content
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Curation tools and services
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Automatically collects and combines your social media posts into an embeddable content block
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Multimedia storytelling tools
Combines maps, timeline, links, photos, video, audio into embeddable multimedia presentation; new form of interactive story that can be watched (TV-like) or explored at user’s speed
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Multimedia, timelines, infographics, data visualization
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Narrative + photos
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
For stories with narrative text and great photos … Can embed finished package on your website
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • [email protected]
Watch for new stuff: Useful for news?When a new tool or app appears, its journalistic applications might not be immediately apparent…
E.g., Vine app: 6-second looping video. … How about coverage
of a fashion show? … Or a looping animated map?
What about new Instagram Hyperlapse app?
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
Steve Outing Media futurist, Digital-news innovator | [email protected]
http://mediadisruptus.com
http://www.slideshare.net/steveouting1
