al jazeera's mobile media reporting in the sahara desert - 2008
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What is Mobile Reporting?
Al Jazeera Mobile Reporter (Breaking News)
Location based projects (Building a visual story of a Reporters journey)
Scope
Why Mobile Reporting?
The Sahara Journey [Trial]
What others are doing
Challenges
Possible Use Cases
The idea
• To provide enhanced Mobile tools to field Reporters to tell their ‘story’
• Presenting more interactively the stories of our Reporters on our Websites and TV
Why?
• Show the story, not just tell it (Maps with routes)
• More depth to stories possible
• High Quality images & GPS
• Works where there is no phone signal
• Standard inexpensive tools (Mobile Phones)
TV Quality Video
5 mega pixel camera
High Speed Data
Integrated GPS
Small & Always with you
Not just a phone...
Meeting the Tuareg’s...
• A trial was conducted
• In the harshest of climates
• Blazing Heat, Blowing Sand
• No phone signal
Possible Use Cases
• Getting co-ordinates of Reporters in Danger Zones
• Reporting the Report (Behind the scenes view taken by the crew)
• Capturing & reporting from where camera equipment cannot be taken
• Undercover Reporting
Next Steps
• Conducting some more trials
• Phones are being ordered
• Training for Journalists
• Integrating Maps into AJE & AJA websites
• Possible use for TV Broadcast Reports