Yes, Apple released a new iPhone 5 this week. I wrote about it for Crikey. And I spoke about it on ABC Radio National’s Media Report yesterday, in the context of using smartphones for journalism.
Will the new iPhone improve citizen journalism? More broadly, can we use modern Android phones to produce quality journalism?
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The tools I mentioned were:
- CoveritLive for liveblogging.
- WordPress for blogging more generally, though of course there are others.
- Any number of tools for posting photos and other images, but I mentioned Flickr and Twitpic.
- YouTube is the gorilla in the room for posting video, but there’s also services for live video streaming such as Ustream and Livestream. The latter even works as a video switching service in the cloud.
“You’re going to get phone calls after this, Richard, from plenty of people who say ‘No, no, no, use something else. You can get into kind of religious wars about this sort of thing, and it’ll all be out of date by November,” I said. Which is true, but I still might write an article talking about this in more detail some time.
The audio is of course ©2012 Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and over at their website you can listen to the entire episode.
