In the pool, on the track, and in all other venues, elite athletes are more alike than different. Winners and losers share the same goals and passions. They achieve nearly identical results. For example, in the one hundred meter sprint, just a few hundreds of a second separate the Gold from the Silver. But what…
read more →What kind of person comes to mind when you see the word skateboarder? If you envision young guys doing insane tricks, “Skate Birds” may add something new to the image. Shot for RTÉ News by celebrated mobile journalist Philip Bromwell, the two-minute news report illustrates the growing presence of women in the skateboarding world. It also…
read more →On June 1, 2018, John Flanagan decided to use his smartphone to capture the stormy night sky above Huntsville, Alabama. In addition to recording lightning flashes, Flanagan’s 25-second clip includes a mysterious circular object, which inspired the videographer to title his video “UFO Sighting.” The unidentified object, which appears intermittently, can be seen at 0:11 and 0:15. But don’t blink. Commenters on YouTube give…
read more →With her first smartphone news report, Gisella Rojas Rodriguez has taken the top prize at the Thomson Foundation 2018 Mobile Journalism Competition. An Ecuadorian studying investigative journalism in Mexico, Rodriguez used an iPhone 7 to shoot “The Migrant Bus,” a four-minute mini-doc about migrants seeking a safer place to live. Edited with the Kinemaster app, the movie combines traditional doc shots, such…
read more →“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” That question grew from a thought experiment conducted by George Berkeley in 1710. Berkeley argued that if no one was around to perceive the trees, then the trees didn’t exist. Citizen journalism seems to affirm Berkeley’s conclusion that…
read more →Among the Internet’s most astonishing achievements is the democratization of information sharing. Instead of a handful of news outlets, now millions of citizen journalists cover local and distant news topics using words and videos. Traditionalists worry that untrained reporters and commenters may lack the skills and fair-minded attitude needed to make grassroots journalism authentic. And that’s one reason that the Mobile…
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