new media reporting - asia media forum 2009

New Media Reporting

Moeed AhmadHead of New Media

http://www.moeed.comhttp://twitter.com/moeed

The Al Jazeera Family

What is New Media?

New Media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century.

Source: Wikipedia

“To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media ... Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control”. - Rupert Murdoch, quoted in Wired, July 2006

(cc) Lynette Webb, 2006

4 primary reasons for this shift...

1. Tools

2. Connectivity

3. Sharing

4. Attitude

A case study

Chad Report on Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Camerman - Laith Mushtaq in Chad

Breaking news captured on N95

Sent directly to Newsroom using Al Jazeera Reporter

Hotel Wifi used for connection

Faster than traditional method

Cost of Reporting

Uplink 9MHz BandwidthSNG Kit CostCamera Kit

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Another case study

http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/us-airways-crash-rescue-picture-citizen-jouralism-twitter-at-work

Distribution

http://www.youtube.com/aljazeerachannel

Al Jazeera Mobile Websiteshttp://m.aljazeera.net

http://twitter.com/ajgaza

http://twitter.com/longmarch

http://cc.aljazeera.net

Contribution

Al Jazeera Mobile Reporter

http://sharek.aljazeera.net

http://yourmedia.aljazeera.net

http://search.twitter.com

Conversation

http://www.seesmic.com

http://twitter.com/SherineT

http://twitter.com/AymanM

Questions?