By: E&P Staff Nokia Research Center (NRC) and Reuters are working together on a mobile journalism project that could transform the way journalists file news reports when on the move, Reuters recently said in a statement.
The new mobile application centers around a toolkit that provides everything journalists need to file and publish stories from even the most remote regions of the world.
Through an ongoing trial that started this summer, Reuters journalists used the mobile journalism application in their everyday work to edit, combine and file text, images, sound and live and recorded video streams, producing and publishing multi-media stories of broadcast quality without needing to return to the studio or office.
The mobile journalism application uses the multimedia capabilities already available in existing smart phones and combines these to produce a toolkit that fits intuitively with the way in which journalists want to use it.
Reuters has already developed a mobile editorial interface that links the toolkit developed by NRC to the in-house editorial process, allowing stories to be published almost instantly from the field.
The trial involved a select number of Reuters journalists who filed stories from events ranging from New York's Fashion Week to the Edinburgh TV Festival to the U.S. presidential primary campaigns. Reuters continues to make experimental use of the application.
A group of university students will also use the application in coming months, to give an idea of how the toolkit could possibly work in a future citizen journalism context.
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